American country singer and actress Dolly Parton was buried during a private ceremony in Nashville on August 31. Her nephew Brian Seaver announced her death at age 81 on the evening of August 25, noting she had been battling cancer.
The funeral took place three days after her passing on Friday, August 28. A concert honoring Parton was held on Saturday with proceeds donated to the Parton’s Imagination Library, an organization dedicated to improving children’s literacy.
On August 26, U.S. President Donald Trump described Parton as “a unique and amazing person.”
Born January 19, 1946, into a large family of twelve children in poverty, Dolly Parton began singing in church and on local radio early in life. She launched her professional career at age eighteen and has become the best-selling female country singer of all time, with album sales exceeding one hundred sixty million copies.
