As the most awarded country music singer ever, a devoted wife, and mother to six children, Loretta Lynn had one heck of a journey.
Growing up in the coal-mining hills of Kentucky, she was dirt poor – and her mother reportedly used Sears catalog pages as wallpaper.
She married Oliver “Mooney” Lynn when she was only 16 and, according to the girl herself, it took a while before she learned where babies came from …
Keep on reading to find out everything about ”the coal miner’s daughter” – and her sad, last words before she died…
Country legend Loretta Lynn was born April 14, 1932, in Butcher Hollow, Kentucky, the second oldest of eight children. Her mother loved American actress Loretta Young and decided to name her daughter after her. Loretta’s father was a coal miner who died of black lung disease at 52.
Her family were poor by anyone’s standards, and Loretta’s early life was often tough.
