The couple married in 1966, just two short years after meeting at a laundromat in Nashville when Parton was 18 and Dean was 21. Their love story blossomed through Dean's two-year military service ...

Rarely seen, Carl Dean was the man who stood by Dolly Parton’s side as ... He served in the National Guard during the Vietnam ...

Dolly Parton is one of the most famous musicians in the world, though her late husband, Carl Thomas Dean, chose to live a ...

Like all great love stories, they never end,” Parton wrote on Instagram before releasing the ballad “If You Hadn’t Been There ...