Editing Loretta Lynn (section)

===Marriage===
On January 10, 1948, 15-year-old Loretta Webb married 21-year-old Oliver Vanetta Lynn Jr. (August 27, 1926 – August 22, 1996), better known as "Doolittle", "Doo", or "Mooney".<ref>{{Cite news |last=McKinley Jr. |first=James |date=2012-05-21 |title=Report Says Loretta Lynn Was All of 15, Not 13, When She Married |url=https://archive.nytimes.com/artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/05/21/report-says-loretta-lynn-was-all-of-15-not-13-when-she-married/ |access-date=2025-04-20 |work=The New York Times}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Schreiner |first=Bruce |date=2012-05-19 |title='Coal Miner's Daughter' Lynn married at 15, not 13 |url=https://news.yahoo.com/coal-miners-daughter-lynn-married-15-not-13-075914978.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120519101606/https://news.yahoo.com/coal-miners-daughter-lynn-married-15-not-13-075914978.html |archive-date=2012-05-19 |access-date=2025-04-19 |work=AP}}</ref> They had met only a month earlier. The Lynns left Kentucky and moved to the northwest Washington state logging community of [[Custer, Washington|Custer]] when Lynn was seven months pregnant with the first of their six children.<ref name="Associated Press"></ref> The happiness and heartache of her early years of marriage would help to inspire Lynn's songwriting.<ref name=Grashey></ref> They were married for almost 50 years until his death in 1996 at age 69. In her 2002 autobiography, ''[[Still Woman Enough]]'', and in an interview with [[CBS News]] the same year, she recounted how her husband cheated on her regularly and once left her while she was giving birth.<ref name="CBS">{{Cite news |date=December 27, 2002 |title=Legends: Loretta Lynn Tells All |publisher=CBS News |url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/legends-loretta-lynn-tells-all/ |url-status=live |access-date=February 4, 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131102005240/http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/05/10/48hours/main508640.shtml |archive-date=November 2, 2013 |quote=Her autobiography recounts how once, in a drunken rage, he smashed many jars full of vegetables she had painstakingly canned.}}</ref> Lynn stated she and her husband fought frequently, but that "he never hit me one time that I didn't hit him back twice." Loretta said that her marriage was "one of the hardest love stories".{{Sfn | Lynn | 2002}}{{Page needed |date=January 2015}} In one of her autobiographies, she recalled:
{{cquote|I married Doo when I wasn't but a child, and he was my life from that day on. But as important as my youth and upbringing was, there's something else that made me stick to Doo. He thought I was something special, more special than anyone else in the world, and never let me forget it. That belief would be hard to shove out the door. Doo was my security, my safety net. And just remember, I'm explainin', not excusin'... Doo was a good man and a hard worker. But he was an alcoholic, and it affected our marriage all the way through.{{Sfn | Lynn | 2002 |p = xiii}}}}