![]() Get the latest newsletters right to your inboxĪs a songwriter, she crafted a persona of a defiantly tough woman, a contrast to the stereotypical image of most female country singers.Download our app to get alerts to your device. ![]() ![]() Lynn already had four children before launching her career in the early 1960s, and her songs reflected her pride in her rural Kentucky background. They asked for privacy as they grieve and said a memorial will be announced later. "Our precious mom, Loretta Lynn, passed away peacefully this morning, October 4th, in her sleep at home in her beloved ranch in Hurricane Mills," the family said in a statement. In a statement provided to The Associated Press, Lynn's family said she died Tuesday at her home in Hurricane Mills, Tennessee. Loretta Lynn, the Kentucky coal miner's daughter whose frank songs about life and love as a woman in Appalachia pulled her out of poverty and made her a pillar of country music, has died. ![]()
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