Shortly thereafter, she signed with Decca Records. Lynn began singing in local clubs in the late 1950s and signed her first recording deal in 1960 with Zero Records. He was a major supporter of her music career, buying her first guitar and acting as her talent manager throughout her early years, but their marriage was tumultuous, and Lynn said in her later years that he was a lifelong alcoholic, and at times violent and unfaithful. They’d go on to move west to the logging community of Custer, Washington, have six children - three of which were born before her 19th birthday - and stay married for the next 48 years until his death in 1996. She married Oliver Vanetta “Doolittle” Lynn when she was 15 years old, having met him only one month earlier. “Our precious mom, Loretta Lynn, passed away peacefully this morning, October 4th, in her sleep at home in her beloved ranch in Hurricane Mills,” they wrote, asking for privacy during their grieving process and promising that a memorial service would soon be announced.īorn Loretta Webb in the northeastern Kentucky mining town of Butcher Hollow on April 14, 1932, Lynn was the eldest of Clara Marie “Clary” and Melvin Theodore “Ted” Webb’s seven children. Lynn’s family confirmed the news in a statement to the Associated Press.
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