Dolly Parton’s husband, Carl Dean, dies of 82 years

Carl Dean, the old husband of the country music icon Dolly Parton, died Monday at the age of 82.

Dean, who was famous in private during his almost 60 -year marriage with Parton, died in Nashville, Tennessee, according to a statement he published on social networks.

“Carl and I spent many wonderful years together. Words cannot do justice to the love we share for more than 60 years. Thank you for their prayers and sympathy,” reads the statement.

The singer “9-5” met Dean outside a laundry the first day that he arrived in Nashville as an aspiring 18-year-old singer.

Parton recalled his first meeting, said: “I was surprised and delighted that while talking to me, he looked at me in his face (something weird for me). He seemed to be really interested in discovering who he was and what it was.”

Two years later, on May 30, 1966, the couple exchanged votes in a private ceremony in Ringgold, Georgia.

Throughout his marriage, Dean remained out of the public eye, choosing in his place to focus on his business that comes out asphalt in Nashville.

Although he remained a large extent outside the center of attention, Dean continued to influence Parton’s work, especially inspiring his classic “Jolene” success.

She told us to the media in 2008 that the song was about a banks of banks that developed a love of Dean.

“She fell in love with my husband,” said Parton. “And he loved to go to the bank because he paid him so much.

Parton’s relationship and Dean remained such a mysterious mystery that rumors began that it did not exist, but Parton joked about that.

“Many people say there is no Carl Dean, that he is just someone I invented to keep other people out of me,” he told Associated Press in 1984.

Parton and Dean had no children together.

His brothers, Sandra and Donnie survive, according to Parton’s statement.