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re: Dolly Parton passes away

Posted on 8/25/26 at 5:16 pm to
Posted by Red Stick Tigress
Tiger Stadium
Member since Nov 2005
21733 posts
Posted on 8/25/26 at 5:16 pm to
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Just goes to show, we never know when our time will come.


She was 80.

I hope to make it to 80.
Posted by TigerFanatic99
South Bend, Indiana
Member since Jan 2007
36433 posts
Posted on 8/25/26 at 5:28 pm to
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2020 – Coronavirus efforts
Parton donated $1 million to coronavirus research at Vanderbilt University, which helped fund Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine. Moderna’s vaccine is 94.5% effective against coronavirus, according to early data.


Posted by ATrillionaire
Houston
Member since Sep 2008
3558 posts
Posted on 8/25/26 at 5:34 pm to
Lame post.
Posted by AHM21
Member since Feb 2008
32633 posts
Posted on 8/25/26 at 5:38 pm to
Posted by MKP2004
Member since Mar 2026
992 posts
Posted on 8/25/26 at 5:48 pm to
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TigerFanatic99

No offense, but you can frick off.
Posted by MKP2004
Member since Mar 2026
992 posts
Posted on 8/25/26 at 5:50 pm to
President Trump has ordered flags to fly at half-mast for a full week starting at 6 PM tonight.
Posted by Bobby OG Johnson
Lot of y'all NGMI
Member since Apr 2015
34100 posts
Posted on 8/25/26 at 5:54 pm to
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Dolly Parton is dead, and the church never knew what to do with her.

Half my feed is posting rhinestones today. The other half never trusted her, because she would not wear the uniform.

She never preached a sermon.

She just did the works.

One man. Fifty-eight years. In an industry that eats marriages. No scandal reel, no reality show, no trading up. Just Carl, and a promise kept until death did them part.

She could have built towers in Nashville. Instead she built in the mountains she came from, so the people she came from could work.

Two hundred million books. Given away to children, free, no strings, while the rest of us argued about what to read.

A million dollars for a vaccine in the middle of a plague, and she called it what it was: helping.

She was a feminist who never used the word, a superstar who never left home, and a believer who never made you watch her pray.

"Yea, a man may say, Thou hast faith, and I have works: shew me thy faith without thy works, and I will shew thee my faith by my works." James 2:18.

We spent years asking whether she was one of ours.

She never asked whether we were one of hers. She was too busy feeding children.

I do not know her heart. That was never my job. I know her works, because the whole county she came from lives on them.

"Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them." Matthew 7:20.

You want to honor her today? Put down the tribute post. Put a book in a kid's hands. Stay married. Do the works.

That was the whole sermon. She just never said it out loud.
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Posted by Duffnshank
Member since Jan 2019
931 posts
Posted on 8/25/26 at 5:55 pm to
I’m going to go out on a limb and say she probably, like most people, had no idea what to think/do about Covid in 2020 but wanted to help. She most likely just felt like she needed to help as best as she knew how via Vanderbilt hospital. In reality it was probably one of the best choices for research for her. That’d be my guess anyways judging by how she lived her life.
Posted by Sunnyvale
Little ST. James
Member since Feb 2024
3837 posts
Posted on 8/25/26 at 6:15 pm to
Steel Magnoials watching Now.

But, What a loss today. She was turlye an great person.
Posted by dchog
Pea Ridge
Member since Nov 2012
27995 posts
Posted on 8/25/26 at 6:15 pm to
My grandfather was 89 when he passed away. He had pneumonia and couldn't breathe. He didn't want to fight anymore and passed on. He made piece with his fate.

It depends on who wants to live at that age. My grandfather had to use an oxygen tank or he would suffocate. He was in very bad shape because of the smoking and drinking heavily that lasted until his 40s. The doctor told him at this rate you will not live long. He gave both up but the damage was already done.
Posted by Dixie2023
Member since Mar 2023
5742 posts
Posted on 8/25/26 at 6:20 pm to
I tried for my grand, but we don’t have it here. What a good person give books to so many kids.
Posted by MKP2004
Member since Mar 2026
992 posts
Posted on 8/25/26 at 6:28 pm to
Posted by Saint Alfonzo
Member since Jan 2019
31094 posts
Posted on 8/25/26 at 6:33 pm to
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One of my favorite things she ever did was when she released that rock album to be legit because she was inducted into the Rock Hall. Her Purple Rain cover was beautiful.

She did some rock collaborations outside of that Rockstar record. This debuted at number four on Billboard.
Posted by Bobby OG Johnson
Lot of y'all NGMI
Member since Apr 2015
34100 posts
Posted on 8/25/26 at 6:36 pm to
Posted by TuckyTiger
Central Ky
Member since Nov 2016
528 posts
Posted on 8/25/26 at 6:36 pm to
Got to see her perform back in 2010 when she made a surprise appearance at the Dixie Stampede lobby area in Pigeon Forge. Was only about 6 feet from us.
Really cool.
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