Dolly Parton will be laid to rest beside her beloved husband, Carl Dean, and Page Six has obtained photos of the gravesite.
Parton — who died Tuesday at age 80 following a brief battle with unspecified cancer — will be entombed at Woodlawn Memorial Park and Mausoleum in Nashville.
Our pictures show that the country music icon’s name is already inscribed on the bronze frontispiece of the tomb, which depicts a bucolic mountain scene from the couple’s native Tennessee.
Dean — to whom Parton was married for 58 years — was buried there after he died last March at age 82.
The longtime lovers famously met outside the Wishy Washy Laundromat the day a then-18-year-old Parton moved to Music City.
The cemetery is also the final resting place for Dean’s parents and numerous country musicians, including Parton’s collaborator Porter Wagoner and her friend Tammy Wynette.
Parton’s loved ones have said that the singer-songwriter will be honored in a private service for immediate family members; plans for a public funeral have not yet been announced.
The Grammy winner is expected to be buried in a cotton dress and her signature stilettos.
“Dolly called me and said she wants to rest in a beautiful bed of plush cotton because, after a life wearing heavy rhinestones, she finally deserves to be comfortable and have some rest,” her nephew and head of security, Bryan Seaver, revealed when announcing the news of her passing via an Instagram video.
The latest news on music icon Dolly Parton’s death at 80
Parton previously shared that she wanted the country-gospel song “If We Never Meet Again” to be sung at her funeral.
“[The song] talks about if we never meet again this side of heaven, I will meet you on that beautiful shore, ‘where the charming roses bloom forever and where separations come no more,’” she said in a May 2014 interview, adding that it was her dad’s “favorite” and they played it at his funeral.
Parton’s relatives requested that fans make donations to her Imagination Library free book gifting program instead of sending flowers.
She died at the Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center in Nashville.
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