He avoided the spotlight and inspired her timeless hit “Jolene.” He was 82. “I fell in love with Carl Dean when I was 18 years old. We have spent 60 precious and meaningful years together.

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Jolene. Dean, who was 82, died in Nashville and will be laid to rest in a private ceremony, according to a statement posted on Parton’s Instagram. No cause of death was given.

JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (WJHL) — Two days after Johnson City eagles Boone and Jolene welcomed their first eaglet of the year, the man who built their nest reflected on his involvement in their lives.

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Dolly Parton's husband, Carl Dean, passed away in Nashville at 82. Dean was the inspiration for Parton's hit song "Jolene," based on a bank teller who admired him. The couple met in 1964 and ...

JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (WJHL) — Boone and Jolene, the two subjects of East Tennessee State University’s (ETSU) Eagle Cams in Johnson City, welcomed their first baby chick into the nest on Monday ...

Carl Dean, who died March 3, caught the eye of a bank teller in the 1970s – leading Parton to write "Jolene." The song begs another woman not to take her man and is really "an innocent" song ...

at age 82. (AP Photo/Andres Kudacki, File) Carl Dean, Dolly Parton’s devoted husband of nearly 60 years who avoided the spotlight and inspired her timeless hit “Jolene,” died Monday. He was 82.

Thank you for your prayers and sympathy,” she said. Through the years, Dean inspired much of Parton’s work, most famously “Jolene”, one of her biggest hits, when he became the subject of a ...