Tenn.

She called Mount Juliet, Tenn., her home for many years, but was living with her son in Washington state when she died.

Born Winston Conrad Martindale on Dec. 4, 1933, in Jackson, Tenn., he was one of five children.

As he would explain, one of his young friends in Jackson, Tenn., had trouble saying his given name, Winston, and it came out sounding like Winkie.

The most dramatic nonprofit example of motel rebirth may be the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tenn., which was the site of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s 1968 assassination and reopened in 1991 as the National Civil Rights Museum.

Last week the grieving Parton had reappeared in person in Pigeon Forge, Tenn., to surprise fans at last Friday’s season passholders-only opening of Dollywood, where late husband Carl Dean had one rule.