Posted By: bigdad
Coal miners daughter gone @ 90
Posted By: Hugh Jorgan
Re: Coal miners daughter gone @ 90 - 10/04/22 10:07 PM
I wish they still made women like her today. 
Posted By: Dcuda69
Re: Coal miners daughter gone @ 90 - 10/05/22 12:26 AM
Originally Posted by Hugh Jorgan
I wish they still made women like her today.
Absolutely! Reba is another!
Posted By: That AMC Guy
Re: Coal miners daughter gone @ 90 - 10/05/22 01:46 AM
Originally Posted by Hugh Jorgan
I wish they still made women like her today.
No kidding. Had to give the kids at work a history lesson today. One of them girl shippers claims to love Dolly Parton. But when I mentioned Loretta Lynn's passing today, she had no idea who I was talking about. So, I jokingly gave her some "homework" today.
I wrote down:
Loretta Lynn
Patsy Cline
Bobbie Gentry
Jeanie C. Riley
Tammy Wynnette
Lynn Anderson
Tanya Tucker
Linda Rondstadt
and told her to check them out on Youtubes. That right there is the graduatin' class of the Ladies of Country.
Posted By: Neil
Re: Coal miners daughter gone @ 90 - 10/05/22 10:56 PM
Bet few outside of the motorcycle world know about her huge property being used as the AMA amateur championship motocross races since the 80's.
https://racerxonline.com/2022/10/04/rip-loretta-lynn-1932-2022
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Posted By: A12
Re: Coal miners daughter gone @ 90 - 10/06/22 01:12 AM
Originally Posted by Neil
Bet few outside of the motorcycle world know about her huge property being used as the AMA amateur championship motocross races since the 80's.
https://racerxonline.com/2022/10/04/rip-loretta-lynn-1932-2022
https:/
Absolutely!!!! I've been there doing support for a certain brand motorcycle probably twenty plus times starting at the second event in 1983. Great times and Lorreta showed up often.
Family and personal friend Dave Coombs Sr. (RIP) shown here with Loretta (from your RacerX link) was the promoter of the Loretta Lynn's Amateur Motocross National Championship.
Godspeed and RIP Loretta
Posted By: 360view
Re: Coal miners daughter gone @ 90 - 10/06/22 12:32 PM
Her mom’s maiden name was Raney, and the Raney family was part Cherokee.
I think you can see that in her cheek bones.
Through the Raney’s Patti Loveless is a distant cousin of Loretta.
VanLear, the coal company town named for a President of the Consolidation Coal Company,
was a unique place.
Many immigrant families were brought by train from seaports directly there, unlike nearby coal towns.
Very diverse mix of backgrounds, mix of music.
Surrounding coal camps were mostly populated by local mountaineers.
Some distance away, other “Consol” coal camps at Jenkins and Lynch were similarly “worldly.”
If you walk up Butcher Holler to the ridgeline, you are looking down into Auxier Holler, one of my grandmother’s family homeplace.
I think you can see that in her cheek bones.
Through the Raney’s Patti Loveless is a distant cousin of Loretta.
VanLear, the coal company town named for a President of the Consolidation Coal Company,
was a unique place.
Many immigrant families were brought by train from seaports directly there, unlike nearby coal towns.
Very diverse mix of backgrounds, mix of music.
Surrounding coal camps were mostly populated by local mountaineers.
Some distance away, other “Consol” coal camps at Jenkins and Lynch were similarly “worldly.”
If you walk up Butcher Holler to the ridgeline, you are looking down into Auxier Holler, one of my grandmother’s family homeplace.
Posted By: 360view
Re: Coal miners daughter gone @ 90 - 10/06/22 12:48 PM
Elkhorn #3 coal seam at VanLear, where Loretta’s father worked.
Notice the big blocks of coal, which the mine was known for.
To promote the mine, a cabin of coal blocks was built and taken on a railroad flat car to various cities for display and advertising.
Customers liked the big blocks for fireplace burning.
Notice the big blocks of coal, which the mine was known for.
To promote the mine, a cabin of coal blocks was built and taken on a railroad flat car to various cities for display and advertising.
Customers liked the big blocks for fireplace burning.
Posted By: justinp61
Re: Coal miners daughter gone @ 90 - 10/06/22 01:27 PM
Years ago, my wife and I wife and saw her at the Ryman in Nashville.