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NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Loretta Lynn, the Kentucky coal miner’s daughter whose frank songs about life and love as a woman in Appalachia pulled her out of poverty and made her a pillar of country music, has...

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The firebrand singer and songwriter who transformed coal into diamonds by exploring her dirt-poor childhood in eastern Appalachia in her career-defining 1970 hit died on Tuesday, Oct. 4. Her family said that she died from natural causes at her home in Hurricane Mills, Tennessee.

Loretta Lynn, the Kentucky coal miner's daughter who became a pillar of country music, has died at the age of 90.

The "most awarded lady in country music" has died. The daughter of a coal miner, Lynn reached peak success with 24 #1 singles and over 45 million albums sold.

Loretta Lynn's frank songs about life and love as a woman in Appalachia pulled her out of poverty and made her a pillar of country music.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. - Loretta Lynn, the Kentucky coal miner’s daughter whose frank songs about life and love as a woman in Appalachia pulled her out of poverty and made her a pillar of country music, has...

Lynn already had four children before launching her career in the early 1960s, and her songs reflected her pride in her rural Kentucky background.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Loretta Lynn, the Kentucky coal miner's daughter whose frank songs about life and love as a woman in Appalachia pulled her out of poverty and made her a pillar of country music, has died. She was 90. In a statement provided to The Associated Press, Lynn's family said she died Tuesday…

By Bill Trott , (Reuters) - Loretta Lynn, the coal miner's daughter and moonshiner's wife who became one of American country music's biggest stars and...