Are Dollys parents living? What about her brothers and sisters?
Dolly’s father, Robert Lee Parton, passed away in November 2000 at the age of 79 following a stroke. At that time, her parents had been married for 61 years. Her mother, Avie Lee Owens Parton, passed away in December 2003 at the age of 80. Ten of her brothers and sisters survived past childhood are still living, most with children of their own. One brother, Larry, died shortly after birth. The children, in order of birth, are Willadeene, David, Denver, Dolly, Bobby, Stella, Cassie, Randy, Larry, the twins Freida and Floyd and the baby of the family, Rachel. What is Dolly’s ethnic background? I’ve heard she is part Native American. Well, several published sources have said she is of Cherokee descent, but a family member who’s done much genealogical research on their background disputes that statement. In her authorized biography, Dolly by Alanna Nash in 1978, it was stated that Dolly’s mother is one-quarter Cherokee, which would make Dolly one-eighth, and her father Scotch-Irish. In The
