Loretta Lynn knew the misery of outliving several of her friends in the country music industry
Throughout her decades in the music industry, Lynn experienced the misery of losing several good friends. She had formed a deep bond with Patsy Cline when she died tragically in 1963. And she was in the hospital with her friend and frequent collaborator Conway Twitty when he died 30 years later in 1993.
She lamented the deaths of many of her peers in country music, like Tammy Wynette, Kenny Rogers, and Naomi Judd. But she also took a lesson from all that loss.
“Make peace today, forgive each other, slow down and make time for each other, spend time together, say, ‘I love you,” she wrote on her blog. “You always think you have the time until you don’t.”