Loretta Lynn was a country music singer and songwriter from the United States who was born on April 14, 1932. During his six-decade career, Lynn had multiple gold albums.
Loretta Webb was born in Butcher Hollow, Kentucky, on April 14, 1932. She was the oldest daughter and second child of Clara Marie “Clary” and Melvin Theodore “Ted” Webb.
Ted worked as both a coal miner and a subsistence farmer. Despite their Cherokee origin, the family is not recognized by or as a member of a tribe. Loretta Young was the inspiration for her name.
Lynn was married to Oliver Vanetta “Doolittle” Lynn for over 50 years before he died at the age of 69.
In her 2002 memoir Still Woman Enough and in an interview with CBS News the same year, she described how her husband routinely cheated on her and once abandoned her when she was in the middle of giving birth.
Who is Loretta Lynn husband Oliver Lynn?
Oliver Vanetta Lynn, Jr. was the husband of country music legend Loretta Lynn and was best known as Doolittle Lynn born on August 27, 1926. He was an American talent manager.
Oliver Lynn, of Irish ancestry, was born in Butcher Hollow, near Paintsville, Kentucky, in Johnson County, and was an illiterate inhabitant of a town centered on the coal mining industry.
He was uninterested in coal mining after serving in the United States Army during World War II.
He made a living selling moonshine, earning him the moniker “Mooney.”
