Robert Lee and Avie Lee Parton had 12 children, including country music legend Dolly Parton Julie Tremaine is a contributing writer at PEOPLE. She has been at PEOPLE since 2022. Her work has ...

Dolly Parton has given the world many, many memorable quotes to live by and embroider on pillows or emblazon on candles as ...

The Parton family, raised by Robert and Avie Lee Parton, grew up in the Appalachia region of Tennessee, according to the Country Music Hall of Fame. Over the years, Dolly Parton hasn't shied away ...

Parton couldn't read or write yet, so her mother wrote down her lyrics as she sang them into a tin can microphone on their porch.

They married just two years later, with only her late mother, Avie Lee Parton, and the preacher and his wife, by their sides. She made her first big career move in 1967, when she joined The Porter ...

Robert Lee and Avie Lee Owens Parton; brothers, Larry, Floyd and Randy Parton. David was one of Dolly’s 11 siblings born to Robert and Avie Lee Parton. The couple shared six boys and six girls.

Archival recordings of late family members are particularly fascinating: among them are Dolly’s grandfather, Reverend Jake Owens; his daughter (and Dolly’s mother), Avie Lee Owens Parton ...

It was a small affair. The only people in attendance were Parton’s mother, Avie Lee Parton, and the preacher and his wife. Parton expressed her love for Dean in the song “From Here to the Moon ...

They married two years later on Memorial Day in Ringgold, Georgia, in a private ceremony with just Parton’s mother, Avie Lee Parton, the preacher and his wife attending. Parton was 20 ...

Dolly Parton has shared two more songs from her upcoming musical and visual project Smoky Mountain DNA – Family, Faith & Fables, as well as revealed the 37-song track list for the collection ...

Parton will feature various relatives — including her siblings and late mother — on a new album that tracks her extended family's journey to Tennessee Jason Kempin/Getty Dolly Parton in ...