Carl Dean, Dolly Parton‘s husband for greater than half a century, is lifeless … in response to the icon herself.

Dolly introduced Carl’s passing Monday night, saying her beloved will probably be laid to relaxation in a personal ceremony with their rapid household.

Whereas she didn’t point out a explanation for demise, Carl had been identified with Alzheimer’s Illness in 2019.

Carl and Dolly married means again in 1966 after first assembly in 1964 in a Nashville laundromat. It was reportedly Dolly’s first day in Music Metropolis as an up and coming singer/songwriter … and she or he’d described their assembly as “love at first sight.”

Regardless of being collectively from the star of her storied profession, Carl — who was an asphalt contractor — not often shared the highlight together with his spouse. Images and movies of them out in public are uncommon, though Dolly spoke about him incessantly.

She says she wrote her 2012 music, “From Right here to the Moon and Again,” for Carl … they usually renewed their vows in 2016, which was their fiftieth anniversary.

As she places it, “Carl and I spent many fantastic years collectively. Phrases cannot do justice to the love we shared for over 60 years.”

The couple would’ve celebrated their 59th anniversary this yr on Could 30.

Carl is survived by his siblings Sandra and Donnie, and naturally, Dolly … who thanked her followers for his or her prayers and sympathy.

Carl was 82.