Husband’s Husband, Carl Dean, dies at the age of 82

Carl Dean, a long -standing husband icons of the country -music portion, died on Monday at the age of 82.

Ding, who was known throughout the 60-year-old marriage with Porton, died in Nashville, Tennessee, according to a statement she posted on social media.

“Carl and I have spent a lot of wonderful years together. The words can’t fairly share for over 60 years. Thank you for your prayers and compassion,” the statement said.

The 9-5 singer met Dean outside the laundry on the first day when she arrived in Nashville as an 18-year-old beginner.

Porton reminded of his first meeting, saying: “I was surprised and delighted that, talking to me, he looked at my face (for me a rare thing). He seemed genuinely interested in finding out who I am and what I was.”

Two years later, on May 30, 1966, the couple exchanged checkets at a private ceremony at the Georgia.

Throughout the marriage, Ding remained outside the public, choosing instead of focusing on his asphalt platform in Nashville.

Although he remained largely outside the attention, Ding continued to influence the work of the Porton, primarily inspiring her classic Jole’s hit.

In 2008, she told us the media that a song about a bank cashier who developed her favorite in Dina.

“She got this horrible pressure on my husband,” Porton said. “And he just liked to go to the bank because she paid him so much attention. It was like a joke between us – when I said, ‘Damn, you spend a lot of time in the bank. I do not believe that we have that kind of money. “So, it’s a really innocent song around but sounds scary.”

Porton and Dina’s relationship remained such a mystery that the rumors began that it did not exist – but the port joked about it.

“A lot of people say there is no Carl Dina, that he was just the one I came up with to avoid other people,” she said in the Associated Press in 1984.

Porton and Dina had no children together.

He was survived by siblings, Sandra and Donny, the Porton statement said.