
Loretta Lynn born April 14, 1932, was a country music singer and songwriter from the United States. Lynn had several gold albums during his six-decade career.
Loretta Webb was born on April 14, 1932, in Butcher Hollow, Kentucky. She was Clara Marie “Clary” and Melvin Theodore “Ted” Webb’s oldest daughter and second child.
Ted worked as a coal miner as well as a subsistence farmer. Although the family claims Cherokee ancestry, they are not recognized by or as members of a tribe. She was named after actress Loretta Young.
Before her spouse passed away at age 69, Lynn was married to Oliver Vanetta “Doolittle” Lynn for almost 50 years.
She detailed how her husband frequently cheated on her and once abandoned her while she was in the middle of giving birth in her 2002 memoirs Still Woman Enough and in an interview with CBS News the same year.
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Loretta and Oliver Lynn had six children, four of whom are still alive, including twin girls Peggy Jean and Patsy Eileen, who was born on August 6, 1964.
Lynn’s sister, Peggy Sue Wright, and her friend, Patsy Cline, inspired their names.
Betty Sue, Lynn’s eldest daughter, was born on November 26, 1948, and died on July 29, 2013, of complications related to emphysema.
The second child and eldest son, Jack Benny Lynn, born December 7, 1949, was found deceased on July 24, 1984, after going missing during horse riding on his mother’s Hurricane Mills ranch.
Ernest Ray Lynn, born May 27, 1951, and Clara Marie “Cissie” Lynn, born less than a year later on April 7, 1952, are Loretta’s third and fourth children.
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