WHEREASDolly Rebecca Parton Dean was an exceptional talent, singer, songwriter, actress, philanthropist, businesswoman, and American treasure, as well as a woman of joyful and enduring faith; and Born in a one-room cabin in Tennessee in the Smoky Mountains, Dolly was the fourth of twelve children and grew up in a family she called “dirt poor,” but one rich in faith and joy – an upbringing she memorialized in songs like “My Tennessee Mountain Home,” and “Coat of Many Colors;” and Dolly...
