Lynn was married at 15 to moonshine-runner Oliver "Mooney" Lynn Jr. and had four kids by the time she was 20. For more on Loretta Lynn, listen below to our daily podcast PEOPLE Every Day.
Loretta Lynn, who died on Tuesday, and Oliver "Doo" Lynn married in 1948, when she was just 15 years old Rachel DeSantis is a senior writer on the music team at PEOPLE. She has been working at ...
Emmy Russell, the granddaughter of Loretta Lynn, and Luka Nelson, the son of Willie Nelson, performed together. The performance was part of a memorial concert put on by CMT. Before their ...
The secret of Loretta Lynn, historians Mary Bufwack and Robert Oermann write, “is in her honesty. Her strength is in her womanhood. Her pride is in her working-class background.” She achieved ...