Pop culture icon Dolly Parton was laid to rest at a private, \u201cquickly done\u201d funeral in Tennessee. In fact, her cousin Richie Owens said he wouldn\u2019t even call the process a funeral.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe word keeps getting brought up, \u2018funeral,\u2019 and I don\u2019t believe that was really the case in this situation,\u201d Owens told NBC\u2019s Today show.<\/p>\n
He said the 80-year-old star, who died on August 25 after a brief hospitalisation, wanted to be buried next to her husband during a very small memorial attended by a few family members.<\/p>\n
Carl Dean, her husband of nearly six decades, was interred at Nashville\u2019s Woodlawn Memorial Park and Mausoleum after his death in March 2025.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was very quiet, very quickly done, and not for any bad reasons whatsoever, it\u2019s just that\u2019s what she wanted,\u201d he said. \u201cShe wanted to keep it very, very private.\u201d<\/p>\n
Like her burial, Parton kept her health problems private before she died from cancer in a Nashville hospital on Aug 25. The world mourned her passing.<\/p>\n
President Donald Trump ordered that flags on federal buildings be flown at half-staff. In London the Band of the Coldstream Guards and the Irish Guards\u2019 Number 12 Company played her 1980 classic 9 To 5 during the Changing of the Guard ceremony.<\/p>\n
According to Owen, 65, Parton said that she\u2019d prefer to see mourners spending their time and money on other things when she died.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe would much rather see people take that $50 you should spend on flowers and give it to her Imagination Library,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
That was a wish she\u2019d expressed \u201cmany, many times\u201d he claims.<\/p>\n
Parton launched that initiative in 1995. The Imagination Library\u2019s stated mission is to inspire \u201ca love of reading by gifting books free of charge to children from birth to age five, through funding shared by Dolly Parton and local community partners in the United States, Canada, Britain, Australia and Republic of Ireland.\u201d \u2013\u00a0New York Daily News\/Tribune New Service<\/p>\n
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