The singer’s late partner of nearly 60 years died at 82 this week.
Dolly Partonhas spoken out afterthe death of her late husband,Carl Dean, this week.
“He is in God’s arms now and I am okay with that,” Parton wrote.
Dolly Parton/Instagram
“I will always love you.”
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Dean, Parton’s husband of 58 years, died March 3 in Nashville.
Parton met Dean in 1964, on the very day that she moved to Nashville to pursue music.
Dolly Parton and husband Carl Dean.Courtesy of Dolly Parton
“And he was so uncomfortable the whole night.”
And he never did."
Parton has long affirmed that the arrangement worked for them.
“They say that opposites attract, and it’s true,” she toldPEOPLEin 2015.
“We’re completely opposite, but that’s what makes it fun.
I never know what he’s gonna say or do.
He’s always surprising me.”
Parton and Dean married in 1966, and the couple never had children.
Though Dean would remain largely outside the spotlight, his flirting inspired Parton’s classic hit “Jolene.”
“My first thought was, ‘I’m gonna marry that girl,'” he said.
“My second thought was, ‘Lord, she’s good-lookin.’
And that was the day my life began.
I wouldn’t trade the last 50 years for nothing on this earth.”
