{"id":36476,"date":"2026-08-31T06:17:23","date_gmt":"2026-08-31T10:17:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/uncategorized\/2026\/08\/dolly-parton-was-laid-to-rest-with-a-private-funeral\/"},"modified":"2026-08-31T08:26:38","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T12:26:38","slug":"dolly-parton-was-laid-to-rest-with-a-private-funeral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2026\/08\/dolly-parton-was-laid-to-rest-with-a-private-funeral\/","title":{"rendered":"Dolly Parton Laid To Rest With A Private Funeral"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Dolly Parton<\/strong>&nbsp;has officially been laid to rest with a private funeral with immediate family on Friday.&nbsp; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Her niece Lainey Parton&nbsp;confirmed&nbsp;the news with a tribute of&nbsp;photos&nbsp;with her &#8220;Aunt Granny&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"insta-iframe\" src=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DcoOAB3EVpY\/embed\/captioned\" width=\"auto\" height=\"auto\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display:inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height:0;\"  class=\"mce_SELRES_start\"><\/span><\/iframe>\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>&#8220;This is a really hard post for me to make. &nbsp;I wanted to wait until after my granny was laid to rest yesterday before I tried to put any of this into words. Because she couldn&#8217;t have kids of her own, she always made us feel like we were hers. &nbsp;She loved us that way, and I&#8217;ll forever be grateful for that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Woodlawn Memorial Park and Mausoleum also shared her&nbsp;<a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dignitymemorial.com\/obituaries\/nashville-tn\/dolly-parton-13019120\">official obituary<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In other Dolly&nbsp;news, the Grand Ole Opry paid tribute to Dolly on Saturday with the entire night in her honour.&nbsp; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There were&nbsp;performances&nbsp;from&nbsp;<strong>Carly Pearce<\/strong>,&nbsp;<strong>Jelly Roll<\/strong>, Dolly&#8217;s niece&nbsp;<strong>Jada Star<\/strong>, and&nbsp;<strong>Channing Wilson<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"insta-iframe\" src=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DcpufIhNvw4\/embed\/captioned\" width=\"auto\" height=\"auto\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display:inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height:0;\"  class=\"mce_SELRES_start\"><\/span><\/iframe>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dolly Parton&nbsp;has officially been laid to rest with a private funeral with immediate family on Friday.&nbsp; Her niece Lainey Parton&nbsp;confirmed&nbsp;the news with a tribute of&nbsp;photos&nbsp;with her &#8220;Aunt Granny&#8221;. &#8220;This is a really hard post for me to make. &nbsp;I wanted to wait until after my granny was laid to rest yesterday before I tried to","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":29247,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"Yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[617,42,3011,102,2095,108,3995,91,7654,93],"class_list":["post-36476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-country-music-news","tag-brad-paisley","tag-carly-pearce","tag-dolly","tag-dolly-parton","tag-funeral","tag-grand-ole-opry","tag-jelly-roll","tag-opry","tag-tributes","tag-vince-gill"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-09-08 10:17:20","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/country959.com\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2026\/08\/dolly-parton-was-laid-to-rest-with-a-private-funeral\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36476"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36476\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36480,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36476\/revisions\/36480"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}