Biografía

Married Oliver Lynn at age 16. Four of their six children were born by the time Loretta was 21. She became a first-time grandmother at age 34.

Related to singer Patty Loveless. Older sister of Crystal Gayle.

Oldest daughter, Betty Sue Lynn, died from emphysema on July 29, 2013.

Oldest son, Jack Benny Lynn, drowned while fording the Duck River at the family's ranch on July 22, 1984.

Loretta's husband was born Oliver Lynn but went by the nicknames Doolittle, and Mooney because he used to manage moonshine in Kentucky.

When I was 14 I lived like a 35-year-old, and when I was 35 I lived like a 14-year-old.

I never knew where babies came from until it happened to me.

I didn't know I was talented. Everybody in Butcher Hollow sang, it seemed like.

[on starting out in her career] We would drive to a radio station and I would go in with my record. Some of them would say they couldn't play it, or they wouldn't play it, and some of them played it while I was there. I just sat there until they played it. I imagine they thought to themselves, "This girl is going to stay here all night if we don't play her record.".

[on Patsy Cline] She was my closest friend. She was the only person, other than my husband, I could turn to in a crisis. There was a lot of resentment when I first came to town. But Patsy was strong-willed and always taking up for me. If it hadn't been for her, I don't think I would have lasted.