Parton died just a year after her husband, Carl Dean

Helen BushbyCulture reporter The singer was famously private about her personal life, but last year she announced that her husband Carl Dean, who was rarely seen with her in public, had died aged 82. Describing her long marriage, she said they spent "many wonderful years" they spent together, adding: "Words can't do justice to the love we shared for over 60 years." The 9-5 singer met Dean outside a laundromat on the first day she arrived in Nashville as an 18-year-old aspirin