Three days after Dolly Parton‘s death, the entertainment icon was “laid to rest” in her native Tennessee on Friday, August 28. Her niece, Lainey Mae Parton, confirmed the news in a heart-wrenching social media post the next day.
“This is a really hard post for me to make,” Lainey captioned a series of photos with her famous aunt, whom she called “granny.” She continued, “I wanted to wait until after my granny was laid to rest yesterday before I tried to put any of this into words.”
Following the country music legend’s death on August 25, her nephew, Bryan Seaver, told TMZ that Parton would be buried at Woodlawn Memorial Park and Mausoleum in Nashville, next to her late husband Carl Dean, who died in 2025. The outlet also noted that Parton would be “buried in her signature high heels and a comfortable cotton dress.”
The confirmation of Parton’s burial site did not come as a huge surprise, given that a spot was reserved for Parton next to Dean, as seen on a plaque erected in the mausoleum where his body was entombed.
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— New York Post (@nypost) August 28, 2026On August 28, the New York Post published photos of Parton’s family members arriving at the burial site, but there was no confirmation at the time of the reason for their gathering.
Dolly Parton’s Niece Says She Treated the Kids in Her Family ‘Like We Were Hers’
View this post on InstagramParton’s niece, Lainey, wrote in her August 29th post that she was a high school freshman when she sang a duet with her “granny” for her 2024 album Smoky Mountain DNA: Family, Faith and Fables. But she didn’t have designs on following in her famous aunt’s footsteps.
“When I told her I wanted to go to beauty school, she never questioned why I wasn’t going to college,” Lainey wrote. “She told me she couldn’t see me doing anything else. She financially supported me through school and helped me get my career started. She didn’t just tell me to chase my dreams, she helped me get there.”
Lainey also shared that she felt “incredibly lucky that I got to call her my granny.” Of the many kids in their family, Lainey wrote, “Because she couldn’t have kids of her own, she always made us feel like we were hers. She loved us that way, and I’ll forever be grateful for that.”
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