“Ours is a great old love story,” Parton previously told PEOPLE of her late husband, who died in March 2025 at age 82
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Dolly Parton died over a year after the death of her husband Carl Dean, who died in March 2025 at age 82
The country legend, who was married to Dean for nearly 59 years, opened up about how his death affected in her in several emotional interviews
Parton said in her November 2025 PEOPLE cover story that “without Carl, I wouldn’t be here”
“Ours is a great old love story.”
That’s what Dolly Parton told PEOPLE of her 60-year romance with husband, Carl Thomas Dean, months after his death at 82 in March 2025.
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