“What a life.”
— Barack Obama, in an X post on Tuesday
There has never been a death of a public figure that saddened me more than that of Dolly Parton. She was a great writer and story teller who kept it simple and told it straight. She wrote an astonishing 3,000 songs, each one uniquely hers.
The New York Times issued a special report titled simply “Remembering Dolly.” President Trump ordered the nation’s flags to be lowered to half-mast for a week. The Empire State Building was lit up pink in her honor at 9:25 p.m. — that’s 9 to 5.
“She was the rare person both sides of the political aisle loved. In a poll this year, 70 percent of Americans expressed a favorable view of Dolly — higher than anyone else on the list,” reports the Times.
Our world needs more people like Dolly Parton. She was a uniter, not a divider. Her legacy: We all need to try harder to be like her.
May she rest in peace.
OBITUARIES AND REMEMBRANCES:
Dolly Parton, Superstar Whose Songs Spoke to Millions, Dies at 80 (NYT)
Dolly Parton: A Life Defying Expectations (WSJ)
Larger than life (NYT)
Dolly Parton, legendary country music superstar and philanthropist, dead at 80 (BI)
Dolly Parton, country music icon, dies at 80 (NBC)
Dolly Parton, country music singer and cultural icon, dies at 80 (WP)
Dolly Parton, in her own words: The country icon's interviews with the AP over the decades (AP)
Country music’s patron saint Dolly Parton has died at the age of 80 following a "brief battle with cancer" at a hospital in Nashville, her representatives said on Tuesday. Tributes to the country music legend poured in, including eulogies from fellow music superstars Reba McEntire, Jack White, Carole King and Taylor Swift. Parton was known for her country chart-toppers, outsized blonde hair and an equally outsized, bubbly personality. But another key part of her legacy was her devotion to philanthropy. [HuffPost]
Remembering Dolly Parton (AP)
Dolly Parton’s quiet decades-long life in California (SFGate)
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