At Dollywood’s 40th anniversary event, Dolly Parton took a moment to reflect on her late husband’s passing and expressed ...

Carl Thomas Dean, husband of country music icon Dolly Parton, has died. He was 82.

At Dollywood’s 40th anniversary event, Dolly Parton took a moment to reflect on her late husband’s passing and expressed ...

Carl Dean, Dolly Parton’s husband of nearly 60 years, died Monday in Nashville, Tennessee. He was 82. According to a ...

The post Dolly Parton's Husband Carl Dean Dead at 82: Inside Couple's Ultraprivate Home in Tennessee Where They Lived for ...

Carl Dean, the husband of Dolly Parton of over 60 years, has died in Nashville, Tennessee, the singer announced on her social ...

Of course I will always love him, and I’ll miss him, but I wanted you to know that I will always love you,” she said.

Dolly Parton's husband Carl Dean was last seen in photos during a rare outing in December 2019. The singer's husband died five years later, on March 3, 2025, according to Parton's Instagram Stories.

To call Carl Dean shy of the spotlight would be an understatement. Few seemed to know him personally outside of immediate family. Really, the most we know about Dean comes from Dolly Parton herself.

Dolly Parton's husband, Carl Dean, was last seen in public in December 2019 in Brentwood, Tennessee, a little more than five years before his death. Parton announced via Instagram that her husband ...