This just HURTS.
Dolly Parton, country music icon, dies at 80
Her death came after in May 2026 she announced she was canceling a Las Vegas show and said she’d been undergoing treatment for kidney stones for several years.
By Corky Siemaszko
Aug. 25, 2026, 1:00 PM CDT / Updated Aug. 25, 2026, 1:03 PM CDT
Dolly Parton, who rose from a loving if impoverished upbringing in the mountains of East Tennessee to become the “Queen of Country” music, a Hollywood star and a beloved American icon, has died, her family announced on Tuesday.
Parton was 80.
Parton’s nephew, Brian Seaver, announced the news in a video posted on her Instagram.
“My name is Brin Seaver, son of Cassie Parton, and I’m representing the Parton and Owens family today announcing the passing of my aunt, Dolly Rebecca Parton Dean, Sister, Sis and Granny to one generation and Gigi to the next,” Seaver said in a video.
“This video announcement is something Dolly asked of me years ago, before I fully absorbed it as a future reality. As her head of security for more than two decades, a role my father Larry held before me, I have imagined the heaviness of this moment but haven’t truly felt it til now,” he added.
Her death came after Parton suddenly announced in May 2026 that she was canceling a Las Vegas show and said she’d been undergoing treatment for kidney stones for several years.
“Lord, they dig more stones out of me a year than the rock quarry in Rockwood, Tennessee,” Parton said in a statement. “But seriously, my immune system and my digestive system got all out of whack over the past couple three years, and they’re working real hard on rebuilding and strengthening those and hopefully I’ll be up to snuff again soon.”
During her more than 60-year career, Parton sold more than 100 million records and won 11 Grammy Awards, making her one of the best-selling musical performers of all time.
Parton also became a star on the silver screen, gaining a whole new audience and critical acclaim when she brought her Southern charm to movies like “9 to 5” (she wrote and sang the theme song), “Steel Magnolias” and “The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas.”
Bedecked in blonde bouffant hairdos and never without her makeup, Parton also became one of the nation’s best known brands who parried questions about her hourglass figure and augmented breasts with her signature self-deprecating wit.
“It costs a lot of money to look this cheap,” Parton once said.
Parton was also a shrewd businesswoman who amassed an estimated $650 million fortune and maintained creative control in the cutthroat and male-dominated music industry. She presided over an entertainment empire that included the Dollywood theme park. And she was a devoted philanthropist who launched the Dollywood Foundation to provide poverty relief and fund educational programs in her native East Tennessee.
Never shy at expressing her Christian faith, Parton was also a public supporter of the LGBTQ community who advocated for marriage equality and spoke up in defense of transgender people.
“I keep saying: If you’re the fine Christian that you think you are, why are you judging people,” Parton said during a 2017 interview with Larry King. “That’s God’s job.”
Along those lines, she jokingly told a British outlet a few years earlier: “I think gay couples should be allowed to marry. They should suffer just like us heterosexuals.”
Through it all, Parton leaned on the love of her life, her husband Carl Thomas Dean, who died in March 2025 at age 82 and who, from the moment they married in 1966, happily ceded the spotlight to his world-famous wife.
“Words can’t do justice to the love we shared for over 60 years,” Parton said in July 2025.
Born January 19, 1946, in a one-room cabin on the banks of the Little Pigeon River near the town of Sevierville, Parton was the fourth of 12 children.
Her father, Robert Lee Parton, could not read or write and often supplemented the family’s meager income from their farm by working constructions jobs.
Her mother, Avie Lee Parton, ran the household and was fond of singing traditional Appalachian ballads. The future superstar said it was her mother who instilled in her a love for music.
At age 6, Parton wrote her first song titled “Little Tiny Tassel Top.”
And it was at church that Parton first started performing. By age 13, Parton was singing on local radio and television shows and made her debut at the Grand Ole Opry, where she met Johnny Cash.
“Dolly Parton has one of the most distinctive voices in American pop music,” Katherine Dacey, a professor at the Berklee College of Music, told NBC News before Parton’s death was announced. “Her high soprano voice gets its distinctive character from her fast vibrato and vocal twang.”
The day after she graduated from Sevier County High School in 1964, Parton headed to Nashville where she first made her mark writing songs for other performers, some of them with her uncle Bill Owens.
In songs like “Tennessee Homesick Blues” and “Coat of Many Colors,” Parton drew inspiration from her hardscrabble childhood.
Three years after leaving school, Parton released her first record, “Hello, I’m Dolly” and caught the attention of country star Porter Wagoner and became a regular on his shows.
Then, in 1974, Parton broke out on her own when she topped the country charts for the first time with a song she wrote and performed called “Jolene.” She later revealed it was inspired by a bank teller who flirted with her husband when they were newlyweds.
Her next four singles were also country chart toppers and one of them, “I Will Always Love You,” later became a huge hit for Whitney Houston in 1992.
In 1977, Parton released her first self-produced album “New Harvest…First Harvest” and became the first female country artist to have an album sell over a million copies.
Parton also won her first Grammy with a single from that record called “Here You Come Again.”
Hollywood beckoned and 1980 Parton made her film debut in “9 to 5” which earned her two Golden Globe nominations for her acting and Oscar nomination for the title song, which many consider a feminist anthem.
Parton, who earned a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1984, made several more movies and performed around the world, but she always returned to the music that first made her famous — and to the hollers of East Tennessee where she was born and where she and her husband made their home.
“Never ignore your roots — your home or your hair,” she once said.
In 1986, Parton opened the Dollywood theme park in the Great Smokey Mountains near her hometown. The 165 acres includes rollercoasters, a bald eagle sanctuary and music and crafts that pay tribute to the region’s Appalachian heritage.
Roger Ebert on meeting Dolly.
“In Dallas for the premier of ‘9 to 5’, I had an uncanny experience, and on the plane home to Chicago I confessed it to Siskel: I had been granted a private half hour with Dolly Parton, and as we spoke I was filled with a strange ethereal grace. This was not spiritual, nor was it sexual. It was healing and comforting. Gene listened and said, “Roger, I felt the exact same thing during my interview with her.” We looked at each other. What did this mean? Neither one of us ever felt that feeling again. From time to time we would refer to it in wonder.”
philip lewis
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee’s governor proposes renaming Nashville’s international airport for Dolly Parton after singer’s death.
2:17 PM · Aug 28, 2026
New York Magazine
@NYMag
“People who hate each other love Dolly Parton,” culture critic Fran Lebowitz once said of the late country icon, who died at 80 yesterday. The Tennessee singer/songwriter, actor, and philanthropist hailed from a vanishing class: the 20th century monocultural phenomenon who attained household name status that never lost its luster. Parton pushed back against the roles available to women in music in the ’60s, raising eyebrows by performing incredible songs she wrote herself, and then met the evolving tastes and struggles of subsequent eras with the same open heart. She remained a light of genteel humor and common-sense acceptance no matter the cause, steadfast in her faith and also resolutely in support of groups ostracized in religious communities.
A married church lady figure who could appear at Studio 54 and on the cover of Playboy without losing the Grand Ole Opry and 700 Club crowds now unites us in grief. Critic Craig Jenkins writes: “What has long been clear is that Parton represented the lasting good that’s possible in America.”
Jenkins remembers the life and legacy of the icon of country music: nymag.visitlink.me/y7N4Rk
https://x.com/NYMag/status/2092656634095194205
jon batiste
@JonBatiste
We will always love you, Dolly ♥️
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Kara Richey
@Kara_Richey
If you make this the last thing you listen to tonight before you go to bed I promise you won’t regret it
https://x.com/Kara_Richey/status/2092438763829957009
Buzzing Pop
@BuzzingPop
Dolly Parton left behind her final recorded song locked inside a dream box at Dollywood to be opened on her 100th birthday, Jan. 19, 2046.
https://x.com/BuzzingPop/status/2092416846712410603
BET
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From country to R&B, Dolly Parton’s songwriting touched generations of Black artists. ✍🏾
Her songs crossed genres, generations and cultures including inspiring and being recorded by some of the biggest names in Black music.
Revisiting this 106 & Park moment and celebrating a true music legend. Rest in peace, Dolly Parton. #BETRemembers #106andPark #DollyParton
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Trip Gabriel
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This obituary of Dolly Parton by Bill Friskics-Warren is on track to become the New York Times’s most read obit of all time
https://x.com/tripgabriel/status/2092630277684076551
Jantar The Botman🪼
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Dolly’s Video Tribute video to Michael Jackson- Rest in Peace
This video was posted on Dolly Parton’s official YouTube channel on June 30, 2009, 5 days after Michael Jackson was announced dead.
This Tribute video was also added to MJ’s official YouTube channel’s favorites, becoming the 11th video in the “favorites” playlist.
For some reason, Dolly Parton made this video private, but now it’s here for anyone who wants to watch it.
R.I.P to the both Legends
https://x.com/Jantar127/status/2092362534716150110
Robert Glasper did a gorgeous tribute to Dolly. If the link doesn’t go straight to it, it’s the 3rd slide.
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When you’ve got Pitbull, Motley Crue, George Strait, and some freaking bag pipe quartet in Glenlivet Scotland singing your praises, you know that, musically, you could absolutely fn bring it
Pitbull
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Tonight we celebrate Dolly Parton…the living legend, or should I say the legend that lives forever.
We love you, Dolly.
https://x.com/pitbull/status/2092461967248437554
This was Black people all across America yesterday.
Kevín
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We found out Dolly Parton passed on set yesterday and we was tore up bout it!
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Pop Base
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Buckingham Palace honours the late Dolly Parton with a performance of ‘9 to 5.’
https://x.com/PopBase/status/2092583273335607647
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Arthur Ashe Stadium today 😥
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Neal K. Shah
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Dolly Parton just passed away at 80 years old. She spent her final years as a CAREGIVER, doing what 63 million Americans do every day: caring full-time for the person she loved most – her husband of nearly 60 years, Carl Dean.
Before she passed, Dolly admitted something that I found totally heartbreaking: while caregiving for him, she completely neglected her own health, skipping doctors visits and ignoring her symptoms.
I think Dolly’s honesty points to three hard truths caregivers face. First, chronic physical decline, as AARP finds 1 in 4 caregivers say their own health has suffered. Second, the “widowhood effect,” where a surviving spouse faces a significantly higher risk of death in the 12 to 18 months after their partner passes. And third, the sudden loss of purpose when intensive caregiving abruptly ends.
Dolly died about a year after her husband. She leaves behind a rich legacy and a life of purpose and helping others. May she rest in peace. 🙏
If you are caregiving for a spouse or an aging parent, please remember what they tell you on airplanes: put on your own oxygen mask first. Taking care of your health isn’t selfish but absolutely necessary.
Please share this with a caregiver who needs to hear the reminder today, and let’s honor Dolly’s legacy. ❤️
https://x.com/nealkshah/status/2092350642061004935
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BEYONCÉ LEGION
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Beyoncé pays tribute to the legendary Miss Dolly Parton. ❤️
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https://x.com/BeyLegion/status/2092387235446260022
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It’s hard to imagine many people having a bigger impact than Dolly Parton. Born in a one-room cabin, she earned 11 Grammys and an Emmy, built a business empire, helped millions of kids learn to read, and — as if that wasn’t enough — helped accelerate the research that led to the Moderna COVID vaccine. What a life. Michelle and I are thinking of Dolly’s family and her many, many fans.
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Mesh🇧🇧
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I know I wasn’t the only one waiting for her reaction 😭
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just josh Pray 😥
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Dolly Parton somehow stayed 25 for 55 years, built an empire in rhinestones, loved God without weaponizing it, welcomed everybody, gave back endlessly and made being kind look powerful. ❤️
Ultra feminine. Business savvy. Inclusive. Faithful. Funny. Generous. Completely Dolly.
There will NEVER be another one. Rest beautifully, Dolly. 🕊️💎
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𝓝𝓲𝓴𝓴𝓲 𝓑𝓪𝓻𝓷𝓮𝓼
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.@DollyParton had a chokehold on the Black community. All my friends are sad.
I’m with y’all. I’ve had this song on a loop.
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Daniel Hannan
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An apt day to remember that Dolly Parton once recorded a cover of Stairway to Heaven – and, in defiance of every moral law in the universe, she absolutely owned it.
https://x.com/DanielJHannan/status/2092332603592282208
Film Updates
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Anne Hathaway honors Dolly Parton:
“Alright my loves, I know this is hard but just think: she left us so much to work with. She shared with us so many melodies, so many lyrics, so many stories, so many jokes, so much laughter, so many iconic performances but most of all, so many shining examples of how to be a treasure of humanity. She more than deserves her rest, and now it’s up to us to do our best follow in her brilliant, adorable, one-of-a-kind, bedazzled footsteps so that we still feel that magic in our world. Dolly, you have always been one of my angels. I will always love you xx”
https://x.com/FilmUpdates/status/2092445671450362082
Holly Rowe
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Well this was precious and now I am weeping. Our @Delta pilot came on and said the crew wanted to honor the joy @DollyParton brought to the world. This is how taxied in to gate!
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Kamala Harris
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Dolly Parton was a true American icon. First introduced to the world as a “little girl from up in East Tennessee,” she became a global superstar.
Her career accolades included 11 Grammy awards, an Emmy, an honorary Oscar, and — my favorite — more than 300 million books sent to millions of children around the world through her Imagination Library. All at once she was kind, modest, and funny. With her music, her philanthropy, and her style, Dolly was one of one.
Doug and I send our prayers to her family, friends, and all those who have been touched by her magic. We will always love you, Dolly.
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A reminder that Dolly Parton is the reason we have the show Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
She hated the movie but believed the show could be amazing so she let them film on her sound studio. By season 2, it was a HIT and became one of the most iconic shows in HISTORY.
As a thank you, Buffy Summers and Dolly Parton share the same birthday.
January 19th.
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Michael Harriot
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Here’s a quietly wonderful thing I noticed:
If you talk to someone who was in choir or band at a majority Black HS, you’ll eventually discuss those annoying fundraisers for uniforms, instruments, etc. & a SURPRISING number will casually say:
“Oh, Dolly Parton paid for ours”
9:00 AM · Oct 6, 2022
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Michelle_BYoung
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Mar 14, 2022
Dolly Parton is one of the most amazing humans that has ever existed and on my old account I had a thread that showed it. So it’s time to gather the evidence again so y’all can see the scope for yourselves. 🧵
Michelle_BYoung
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Mar 14, 2022
1) When Dolly saw that kids in her hometown were dropping out of high school at alarming rates, she stepped in to give them a cash incentive to finish and drop out rates went way down.
Michelle_BYoung
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Mar 14, 2022
Literacy was also an issue in her community, so Dolly founded the Imagination Library which gives free age appropriate books to kids from birth to age 5. It started in her community but it’s international now.
imaginationlibrary.com
Michelle_BYoung
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Mar 14, 2022
3) Dolly always said if she “made it” she would give back to her community and a BIG WAY she did that was Dollywood! The theme park isn’t just about providing fun for kids in Appalachia (and everywhere) it’s a major provider of jobs & tourism.
Michelle_BYoung
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Mar 14, 2022
4) When fires destroyed Tennessee Dolly gave $1000 a month for 6 months to 900 families impacted by them.
bpr.org/news/2018-12-2…
Michelle_BYoung
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Mar 14, 2022
5) “Of course Black Lives Matter, do we think our little White asses are the only ones that matter?!”
Michelle_BYoung
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Mar 14, 2022
6) 🎶 Vaccine Vaccine Vaccine VAC CIIIINE 🎶
Michelle_BYoung
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Mar 14, 2022
7) Finally, and this is the MOST DOLLY THING EVER, while playing an Angel in a Hallmark movie, Dolly Parton literally saved her child costars life by pulling her out of the path of an oncoming car!
Dolly is a living saint or Angel
FIN/
cnn.com/2020/12/11/ent…
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Michelle_BYoung
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Mar 14, 2022
8) POST SCRIPT Sorry how could I forget this one?! Dolly got $10 million dollars in royalties from Whitney Houston’s version of I Will Always Love You & she used it to rebuild a Black neighborhood in Tennessee & calls it “the house that Whitney built”
I will always love Dolly!
PPS 👇🏾
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Michelle_BYoung
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Mar 12, 2022
Replying to @iggyfemininn and @PopCrave
Stares in Dolly wrote “I Will Always Love You” & “Jolene” ON THE SAME DAY!
Michelle_BYoung
@michelle_byoung
And my bestie just gave this bit of info! Dolly is paying tuition for all her Dollywood employees that want to go to college!
Michelle_BYoung
@michelle_byoung
May 10, 2022
Dolly being Dolly again! This time to help refugee children!
Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library to give books to refugee children
From theguardian.com
https://x.com/michelle_byoung/status/1503518646425034757
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Dolly broke me in early to her raucous self deprecating sense of humor
when we began steel magnolias rehearsals 
i asked her – how long does it take to do a hair do like yours?
Dolly – no idea, i’m never there when they do it!
i started taking Dolly-isms notes on the back of my script after that
6:21 PM · Aug 25, 2026
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THIS IS BEAUTIFUL
Judge You Harshly 🦋✌️🤟🖖🌈
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A selection of Dolly murals 🥹
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RIP🙏🏾😪
You were good people😪
Empire State Building Observation Deck
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Tonight, the Empire State Building tower lights will turn to a pink sparkle at 9:25 to honor the late Dolly Parton.
Dolly was a global cultural icon whose seven-decade career reached generations of fans. Beyond entertainment, Dolly leaves a significant philanthropic legacy through the Dollywood Foundation and Imagination Library, which has provided hundreds of millions of books to children worldwide.
At Nine-Two-Five tonight, we celebrate her and her legacy 💖
https://x.com/EmpireStateBldg/status/2092344839845105914
⚜️Sovereign⚜️
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I really loved Dolly Parton‘s music, but I love what she did for literacy even more. that woman gave away thousands of books and helped thousands of children learn to read and continue their love of reading. she will always be iconic for investing in education in that way
1:29 PM · Aug 25, 2026
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Reba McEntire
@reba
Well, I just got the news that my buddy Dolly passed onto the higher and greater side.
Dolly, thank you for all the wonderful things you did for us here on earth.
Your love, your music and you gave so much with your huge huge heart.
There will never ever be another you.
We will remember and cherish every memory and every note you ever played and sang.
Thank you, Lord, for Dolly.
She’s gonna have a blast in heaven singing all her favorite songs with all her family and friends who have gone on before her.
I’ll never forget the first time I met you and I’ll never forget our last conversation. I hold it with love in my heart.
I will always love you,
Reba
1:40 PM · Aug 25, 2026
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Renee
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Wise. Tough. Creative. Compassionate. Genuine. Resilient. And funny too!
Prayers to Dolly’s family. 🙏🏽
https://x.com/PettyLupone/status/2092335305755943398
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The beauty and Hollywood smile of Marilyn Monroe. The charisma, uniqueness, nerve, talent and fearless individuality of a drag queen. The work ethic of someone with 20 jobs. The musical talent of a genius. The love for her fellow human like a mama.
There will never be another 💔
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Remember that if you got the Moderna Covid vaccine, you have Dolly Parton to thank, she gave the largest individual contribution toward their research to make it possible.
1:06 PM · Aug 25, 2026
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Mychal Threets
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Not okay 💔 Dolly Parton, my heart, my hero.
332,411,218 books gifted to children all over the world. We will continue gifting books in your honor ✨💛
Music icon, human icon. Beautiful soul. Can’t believe this. We will always love you, Dolly Parton. All hail the Queen. Rest in Love, Dearly Beloved ❤️🩹
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Breaking News: Dolly Parton, the country singer, songwriter, entertainer and entrepreneur known for her outsize persona and prodigious vision and talent that placed her in a class by herself, has died at 80. http://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/25/a...
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🌈Tyranny🫧Sparkles🏳️🌈
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Dolly Parton with Keith Haring in 1985, incredible woman and supporter of LGBTQ people for decades going back to a time when few others dared.
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Dolly Parton, among a thousand other amazing things she did in her life, gifted over 330 million books to kids through her Imagination Library program. Her passing is a tremendous loss to the world, but you can support the program today to keep it going imaginationlibrary.com
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Kashana
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You know y’all complain about the kids not knowing how to read, but Dolly was trying to teach them. She was mailing books to the children. She was working on it.
1:12 PM · Aug 25, 2026
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Dolly Parton was a supporter of Willa B. Farms, an animal rescue in Old Hickory, TN. I hope you will consider a donation in her memory. 💔 http://www.willabfarms.com/donate
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Steven Beschloss
@stevenbeschloss.bsky.social
Oh, Dolly Parton. What a loss of a bright light and a beloved human. Beyond from her beautiful music–what a talented composer–her commitment to literacy means so much. She came from poverty and family members who could not read–and she funded the free distribution of millions of chidren’s books.
1:41 PM · Aug 25, 2026
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But did you Skeet about Bluesky thinking my ass is AI? 🇱🇨🇺🇸
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We would got children’s books in the mail from her Imagination Library for months because the people who lived in the apartment before had a child. We would donate them to the local library because some kid should still read them.
My kid said the world is a little worse now and they’re right.
RIP 🕊️
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Dolly Parton, one of the greatest singer-songwriters in country music who was also much cherished for her philanthropy, has died aged 80.
Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/music/2026/a...
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Miss Aja
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RIP❤️
There’ll never be another Dolly.
She was a real one.
From Civil Rights to literacy to the empowerment of women…she always stood in the gap.
The world lost an angel today.
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
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Carole King
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My heart is breaking.
In addition to her musical talents, she was an exemplary human being.
R I P Dolly Parton
http://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/25/a...
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Florida Chris
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it’s too sad so im choosing to believe there’s a heaven where she and whitney get to make a whole album together.
1:15 PM · Aug 25, 2026
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I feel you.
Skeptical Brotha 🏳️🌈
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Miss Dolly is gone and the Orange buffoon is still here stinking up the place…
1:22 PM · Aug 25, 2026
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Damn. Dolly Parton passing away is a blow right now to everything decent and good. She will be missed by all. Not too many left like that lady
1:03 PM · Aug 25, 2026
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DOLLY PARTON IS DEAD. May her soul rest in eternal peace and we will always love her.
https://youtu.be/BW7z8Ve3P-k?si=39yX1PN2p2ik7lP8