Loretta Lynn, the Kentucky coal miner’s daughter whose frank songs about life and love as a woman in Appalachia pulled her out of poverty and made her a pillar of country music, has died at 90. According to a statement her family provided to The Associated Press, Lynn died at her home in Hurricane Mills, Tennessee.

The statement said that Lynn died at her home in her sleep. They requested privacy as they grieved and added that plans for a memorial would be announced later. Loretta Lynn was born Loretta Webb in 1932, one of eight children raised in Butcher Hollow in an Appalachian mining town of Van Lear, Kentucky.

Growing up, Lynn sang at church and home, even though her father complained that everyone in Butcher Hollow could hear. Her family didn’t have much money, but Lynn says those years were some of her fondest memories. In her hit song “Coal Miner’s Daughter,” Lynn said, “We were poor, but we had love; That’s the one thing that daddy made sure of.”

In her teenage years, Lynn met Oliver “Dolittle” Lynn, the love of her life whom she affectionately called “Doo.” The couple married when Lynn was 15, and she gave birth to the first of six children that year. The couple made their way to Washington state to find jobs, though music wasn’t a priority then. She spent most of her days picking strawberries while her children sat on a blanket nearby. However, when her husband heard her soothing the babies to sleep and humming tunes, he said she sounded better than the female singers on the radio. He bought her a guitar and got her a job at a local tavern.

In 1960, Lynn recorded her first single, “Honky Tonk Girl. After that, she took her song on the road, playing at country music stations across the country. Her first single’s success landed Lynn on the Grand Ole Opry stage in Nashville and a contract with Decca Records. She became friends with Pasty Cline, who helped her with fame and fashion until she died in 1963.

She also teamed up with singer Conway Twitty to form one of the most famous duos in country music with hits such as “Louisiana Woman, Mississippi Man” and “After the Fire is Gone,” which earned them a Grammy Award. Their duets, and her single records, were always mainstream country and not a crossover or pop-tinged.

She documented her upbringing in the bestselling 1976 memoir “Coal Miner’s Daughter,” co-written with George Vecsey. A 1980 biographical film by the same name won an Academy Award for actress Sissy Spacek and brought Lynn wider fame. Lynn’s success also helped launch the music careers of her sisters, Peggy Sue Wright and Crystal Gayle.

Lynn won numerous awards throughout her career, including three Grammys and many honors from the Academy of Country Music. She earned Grammys for her 1971 duet with Conway Twitty, “After the Fire is Gone,” and for the 2004 album “Van Lear Rose,” a collaboration with Jack White of the White Stripes that introduced her to a new generation of fans.

She was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1988, and her song “Coal Miner’s Daughter” was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1998. She received a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2010, and in 2013, she was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom. In 2017, she suffered a stroke, and the following year, she broke her hip, which led her to stop touring.

However, in 2021, she recorded her 50^th album at 89, “Still Woman Enough.” Lynn and her husband were married until he died in 1996. They shared six children: Betty, Jack, Ernest, and Clara, and then twins Patsy and Peggy. She had 17 grandchildren and four step-grandchildren.