Dolly Parton kept her cancer battle to herself so everybody could focus on happier things, her cousin says. He also discussed Parton’s funeral, the details of which had previously been kept vague, according to her wishes. It was a burial, to be buried beside her husband.” Parton was buried next to her husband, Carl Dean, who died last year, a few days after her death on Aug. 28.
The occasion was small, with only a few family members in attendance. When she died, he said, her wishes were that “she would much rather see people take that $50 you should spend on flowers and give it to her Imagination Library. … She really cared about her charities.” A day before her funeral, Parton’s sister, Stella, honored her sister with a Facebook post. She wrote that what the public saw of the country star was “exactly who she was.” “My sister was always thinking of others and if you want to honor her legacy, show more kindness, lift others up, and give more of your time and resources, as she continued to do to the very end,” she wrote.
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