Carl Dean, the long husband of the country icon Dolly Parton, died Monday 82.
Dean, famous privately in nearly 60-year marion marriage, died in Nashville, Tennessee, according to a statement he posted on social media.
“Carl and many wonderful years together. Words cannot justice the love we share for more than 60 years. Thanks for your prayers and sympathies.
The “9-5” singer met with Dean outside the laundromat on the first day he reached Nashville as an 18-year-old wishing to sing.
Varion remembers their first meeting, saying, “I wonder and glad that as he talked to me, he was a real interest in finding who I am and what I am and what I am and what I am.”
Two years later, on May 30, 1966, the couple moved to the promises of a private Ringgold ceremony, Georgia.
In their marriage, Dean remained in the public eye, chosen instead of focusing on his nashville asphalt business.
Although he remained from the limelight, Dean continued to influence Varion’s work, especially encouraging his classic to hit “Joelene.”
He told us to media in 2008 the song about a bank teller developing a crush on Dean.
“He got this terrible crush to my husband,” Varia said. “And he just loved to go to the bank because he paid him so much. It looked like a running joke between us – if I said for hours. ‘You have no trust in the bank.’ So it’s a bad song around, but it looks like a terrible one. “
Vari and Dean’s relationship remains a mystery that the rumors began to exist – but Varion was joking about it.
“A lot of people say no Carl Dean, that he was just a man I made to stop other people to me,” he said to the Associated Press in 1984.
Vario and Dean have no children together.
He lived with his brothers, Sandra and Donnie said, Varie’s statement.
