Loretta put her career on hold to take care of Doo on his deathbed
Doo had heart surgery in 1992. Complications from diabetes then led to the amputation of both his legs. Through it all, Loretta, having put her career on hold, was there to take care of him. In 1996, Doo passed away at the age of 69. The loss hit Loretta hard. “Three days after my husband died, I left Hurricane Mills and come to Nashville,” she said in an interview in 2000. “After bein’ here awhile, I said to a friend of mine, ‘It seems like I been here a couple months already.’ And she said, ‘You been here a year.'”
Loretta eventually resumed her career. But Doo’s death had left a void in her life. Her daughter Patsy told Rolling Stone in 2004, “I don’t think she has totally accepted my dad’s loss. It’s almost like he’s gone on a long vacation or something.” Loretta herself admitted in a 2011 interview, “I think I see him everywhere I’m at, and everything at home and everywhere I’m goin’.”
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