RIP Dolly Parton

[LilianaUwU]

Family has confirmed it.

https://variety.com/2026/music/news/dolly-parton-dead-dies-country-music-1236842727/

[gonealookin]

Take him, Jolene, he's all yours now.

[ZLoth]

https://variety.com/2026/music/news/dolly-parton-dead-dies-country-music-1236842727/
https://www.reuters.com/lifestyle/dolly-parton-has-died-family-says-2026-08-25/
https://news.sky.com/story/country-music-legend-dolly-parton-dies-13446799

[Big John]

Say eulogy at the bridge unofficially named for her in I-65 near Mobile.

[NWI_Irish96]

Since we're a highway board I feel like she ought to be memorialized at the intersection of WI 40 and CTH DD near Colfax.

(If you're offended by this, just know that she likely would have found this hilarious)

[kphoger]

If you're offended by this

Depends what the memorial is designed to look like... 

[Scott5114]

I'm not usually one to care all that much about celebrity deaths but this one hurts. We could use a lot more people like Dolly in the world.

[hbelkins]

I'd imagine Sevier County, Tenn., will be practically closed the day of her funeral. Gatlinburg/Pigeon Forge/Sevierville never close up for anything, but I'd say they'll make an exception that day.

And the procession will have to go down US 411 in downtown Sevierville, if she's in fact buried there and not near Nashville or somewhere else.

[akt85]

I'd imagine Sevier County, Tenn., will be practically closed the day of her funeral. Gatlinburg/Pigeon Forge/Sevierville never close up for anything, but I'd say they'll make an exception that day.

And the procession will have to go down US 411 in downtown Sevierville, if she's in fact buried there and not near Nashville or somewhere else.

I think I heard that Dollywood closed early today when her passing was announced.

[bing101]

https://www.kswo.com/2026/08/25/dolly-parton-recorded-secret-song-be-released-after-her-death/?utm_source=taboola&utm_medium=organicclicks&tbref=hp

Apparently there will be another song to be released by Dolly Parton.