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ON OCTOBER 4, 2022, JUST BEFORE DAWN, A 90-YEAR-OLD WOMAN DIED IN HER SLEEP IN A RANCH HOUSE IN HURRICANE MILLS, TENNESSEE — A FEW HUNDRED YARDS FROM A REPLICA OF THE KENTUCKY CABIN SHE WAS BORN IN. The day before, she had told her children: Doo is coming to take me home. They thought she was confused. She wasn’t.Loretta Lynn spent her whole life walking back to a place she’d never really left. She was born Loretta Webb in 1932, in Butcher Hollow, Kentucky — a coal-mining holler with no running water. She married Oliver “Doolittle” Lynn at fifteen. She had four children before she was twenty. She was a grandmother at twenty-nine. Her husband bought her a $17 guitar after their third child was born. He told her she ought to try singing. She tried.Fifty studio albums. Forty-five Top 10 hits. The first woman ever named CMA Entertainer of the Year. A Presidential Medal of Freedom. A movie that won an Oscar. And in 1966 — a man named Conway Twitty walked into her career and stayed for seventeen years, until the morning his bus didn’t make it home.She bought a 3,500-acre ranch in Tennessee and built a town inside it — a museum, a campground, a chapel, and a small wooden cabin that looked exactly like the one in Butcher Hollow. Six children grew up there. Two of them never made it past her own lifetime, and one of those losses she said she could never write a song about.In 1984, while she was on tour, her oldest son drowned trying to cross the Duck River on horseback. She collapsed from exhaustion in an Illinois hospital. Doolittle flew up himself to tell her. He didn’t trust the news to a phone call.Doolittle died in 1996. She lived another twenty-six years without him. Caregivers said she would still wake up in the middle of the night and sing at the top of her lungs.The night before she died, she told her family Doo had come for her. They buried her on the ranch four days later, beside him — in a private ceremony nobody filmed. There is one detail about what she was wearing in the casket that her family has never shared publicly. They said she asked them not to.

Loretta Lynn’s Final Morning at Hurricane Mills On October 4, 2022, just before dawn, Loretta...

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