Dolly Parton's husband, Carl Dean, passed away in Nashville at 82. Dean was the inspiration for Parton's hit song "Jolene," based on a bank teller who admired him. The couple met in 1964 and ...

Carl Dean, Dolly Parton’s devoted husband of nearly 60 years who avoided the spotlight and inspired her timeless hit “Jolene,” died Monday. He was 82. According to a statement provided to ...

JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (WJHL) — Boone and Jolene, the two subjects of East Tennessee State University’s (ETSU) Eagle Cams in Johnson City, welcomed their first baby chick into the nest on Monday ...

Carl Dean, who died March 3, caught the eye of a bank teller in the 1970s – leading Parton to write "Jolene." The song begs another woman not to take her man and is really "an innocent" song ...

at age 82. (AP Photo/Andres Kudacki, File) Carl Dean, Dolly Parton’s devoted husband of nearly 60 years who avoided the spotlight and inspired her timeless hit “Jolene,” died Monday. He was 82.

Thank you for your prayers and sympathy,” she said. Through the years, Dean inspired much of Parton’s work, most famously “Jolene”, one of her biggest hits, when he became the subject of a ...

The country music star, 79, has explained that her 1973 hit "Jolene," in which she begs the beautiful title woman not to take her man, was inspired by a real bank teller's interactions with her ...

Dean is survived by Parton and his two siblings, Sandra and Donnie. He inspired Parton’s classic, “Jolene.” Parton told NPR in 2008 that she wrote the song about a flirty bank teller who ...