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In Memoriam: Fallen Stars of 2022
Country euphony has mislaid a star.
Loretta Lynn, the state euphony vocalist whose deed opus "Coal Miner's Daughter" was turned into a movie, has died, her rep confirmed to E! News. She was 90.
In a connection shared online, Lynn's household said she "passed distant peacefully this morning, Oct. 4th, successful her sleep" astatine her location successful Hurricane Mills, Tennessee. The household has asked for privateness arsenic they proceed to grieve and said they volition denote plans for a memorial astatine a aboriginal time.
Lynn, born Loretta Webb, was the 2nd of 8 children and grew up successful a log compartment with her household successful Kentucky. The aboriginal years of her beingness revolved astir the ember excavation and the church, which is wherever she learned however to sing.
She roseate to stardom with her 1970 hit, "Coal Miner's Daughter," an ode to her precocious father Melvin Webb, who passed distant from achromatic lung illness successful 1959.
"I constitute astir my life—in each opus I've written," Lynn told Today's Jenna Bush Hager in 2018. "I would person fixed thing successful the satellite if [my father] would person been present erstwhile I recorded 'Coal Miner's Daughter,' but I deliberation helium hears me. And 1 time I volition sing it for him."
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Lynn, who has been widowed since 1996, is survived by 4 children: Clara, Ernest and twins Peggy Jean and Patsy Eileen. She was besides ma to daughter Betty Sue, who died successful 2013 astatine the property of 64 from emphysema and son Jack Benny, who drowned successful 1984 astatine the property of 34.
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