Everything about Carl Dean, Dolly Parton’s recurring husband in almost 60 years

Dolly Partons man Carl Dean has died.

The very private spouse for the country music legend was 82 years old. The singer, 79, announced his death via social media on Monday 3 March.

Dean was known to stay away from the limelight, instead the singer “9 to 5” allowed to shine.

The couple met in a Nashville -washer when a young Parton was new to town and remained poison for 58 years after their wedding from 1966 Until his death.

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“Carl Dean, husband of Dolly Parton, died March 3 in Nashville at the age of 82.

“Carl and I spent many wonderful years together. Words can’t make the right to the love we shared for over 60 years. Thank you for your prayers and sympathy,” Poston’s post continued. “The family asks for integrity during this difficult time.”

Here’s everything to know about Carl Thomas Dean.

They met on a Nashville -Wash

Parton was only 18 years old when she met Dean, since 21, outside the Wishy Washy Laundromat in 1964 on her very first day in Nashville.

“I would come to Nashville with dirty clothes,” she told New York Times 1976 of her move to start her career.

“I was in such a hurry to come here. And after I put my clothes in the machine, I started going down the street, just looking at my new home, and this guy was holding me, and I waved. From the country I spoke with everyone. And he came and, it was Carl, my husband. ”

They married two years later

According to Dolly Partons Official websiteThe couple tied two years later on May 30, 1966.

They traveled Ringgold, GA, with their mother Avie Lee and had a simple, private ceremony with only Avie Lee, the preacher and the preacher’s wife attended. They celebrated their golden (50th anniversary 2016.

In a rare interview with Entertainment tonight In 2016, Dean shared his first thoughts after meeting Parton.

“My first thought was” I’ll marry that girl, “he said.” My second thought was, “Lord she’s good look.” “And that was the day my life began. I wouldn’t shop for the last 50 years for nothing on earth.”

He worked in the asphalt industry

For several years, Dean ran an asphalt output company in his original Nashville and runs the sidewalk industry as far back as 1977.

He was a lonely and homeboy who liked to stay away from the limelight

“My husband is a lonely,” She previously told People. “He doesn’t particularly care about being around anyone other than me. He just always asked me to leave him out of all this. He doesn’t like all the Hullabaloo. ”

However, Parton also told us Parade That dean was “very safe in itself” and did not worry about her fame or the male look that came with it.

“This is his statement: ‘Well, damn, I know it’s not easy out there. I would feel less for any man who did not fall in love with you, ‘”she shared.

“He doesn’t want to be in the limelight at all,” Parton told Entertainment tonight 2020 of her husband’s recycling. “It’s just not who he is. He’s like a silent, reserved person and he thought that if he ever came out there, he would never get a minute’s peace and he is right about it.”

“I’ve always respected and appreciated it in him, and I’ve always tried to keep him away from the limelight as much as I can,” she added. “He said,” I didn’t choose this world, I chose you and you chose that world. But we can keep our lives separate and together. “And we do and we have that.”

Their vacation was low key

Fame and fortune may have given them the ability to travel anywhere, but they kept their vacation simple.

“We like to get out in our little camper and just be simple,” Parton told People in 2015. “I love reading, I love to cook, I love being with my husband. I put on my little comfortable clothes – I call them my baby clothes – and we just relax. ”

Their RV adventure does not last long. “He loves to go on vacation or on small trips, but he doesn’t want to be gone for a long time,” she says. “He wants to be mostly around the house. He knows I’m the other way around. I can’t go enough places. I can’t do enough things. He loves it. He is independent. He doesn’t need me in the face, and it’s the same with me.

He inspired Parton’s hit “Jolene”

One of Parton’s biggest hits was written with dean on the brain.

“She got this terrible crush on my husband,” Parton told Npr 2008 about a flirtatious woman.

“And he just loved to go to the bank because she paid him so much attention. It was a bit like an ongoing joke between us – when I said:” Hell, you spend a lot of time at the bank. I don’t think we have that kind of money. “So it’s really an innocent song around, but sounds like a terrible one.”