"Loretta was sick," Gayle told PEOPLE in 2016. "I know Mooney, her husband, talked somebody into letting me go on stage that night." Gayle added that while people tried to pit the sisters against ...

The secret of Loretta Lynn, historians Mary Bufwack and Robert Oermann write, “is in her honesty ... Named for Loretta Young and delivered by “Old Aunt Harriet,” an 80-year-old blind ...