Episode 37 - Who is Shirly Dillon exactly? The end of our Bert Prentice series.

And if you've been living under a rock, you don't know the great Dolly Parton, an East Tennessee original, a legend, an icon, left this world this week, and it has been a sad, sad day in East Tennessee, or sad week.

I was in Alabama last when she passed, I, I walking down the hallway, walked by the office at the Huntsville home and Judy Lee said, Hey, come in here.

And she said, I believe Dolly Parton has died.

It's up in the video of her nephew.

And as soon as I saw him, because I've seen him for many years, uh, knew who he was and knew that it was true.

Um, and we followed her, the story the rest of the day and was hearing from my family up here of how sad it was.

And John, I saw you had posted something of her, uh, you know, the day she passed and as everybody did and the world loved Dolly loved.

But if you're not from these mountains here in East Tennessee, where I'm from, she was born and raised 70 miles from where I'm sitting right now.

I don't think you can truly understand that.

how much that everybody here loved her.

They loved her universally everywhere, but here she was more than Dolly.

She was more than a singer, more than an actress, more than all the things that she is.

For so many generations of these mountains, she was hope.

Chase a dream, you can catch it.

She was never shy to say where she was from or show everybody who she was.

Dirk poor growing up, the most modest of life.

I read yesterday that right now she's worth about $500 million.

And she never acted like she was worth $500 million.

And frankly, not that it's that important for net worth or to place value on net

worth.

She could be worth a lot more.

Yeah.

But she was such a wonderful philanthropist.

She could have easily been a billionaire up there with the McCartneys or whoever, Paul McCartney, but gave a lot of her money

away.

And if you've been living under a rock, you don't know the great Dolly Parton, an East Tennessee original, a legend, an icon, left this world this week, and it has been a sad, sad day in East Tennessee, or sad week.

I was in Alabama last when she passed, I, I walking down the hallway, walked by the office at the Huntsville home and Judy Lee said, Hey, come in here.

And she said, I believe Dolly Parton has died.

It's up in the video of her nephew.

And as soon as I saw him, because I've seen him for many years, uh, knew who he was and knew that it was true.

Um, and we followed her, the story the rest of the day and was hearing from my family up here of how sad it was.

And John, I saw you had posted something of her, uh, you know, the day she passed and as everybody did and the world loved Dolly loved.

But if you're not from these mountains here in East Tennessee, where I'm from, she was born and raised 70 miles from where I'm sitting right now.

I don't think you can truly understand that.

how much that everybody here loved her.

They loved her universally everywhere, but here she was more than Dolly.

She was more than a singer, more than an actress, more than all the things that she is.

For so many generations of these mountains, she was hope.

Chase a dream, you can catch it.

She was never shy to say where she was from or show everybody who she was.

Dirk poor growing up, the most modest of life.

I read yesterday that right now she's worth about $500 million.

And she never acted like she was worth $500 million.

And frankly, not that it's that important for net worth or to place value on net

worth.

She could be worth a lot more.

Yeah.

But she was such a wonderful philanthropist.

She could have easily been a billionaire up there with the McCartneys or whoever, Paul McCartney, but gave a lot of her money

away.