Loretta Lynn “is already planning her funeral,” a source close to the country legend told The National ENQUIRER, adding that the struggling country star left her recent hospital stay saying that she’s “ready to meet her maker, and finally be reunited with her beloved husband Mooney!” Loretta had reportedly been rushed to Saint Thomas Midtown Hospital in Nashville after being stricken by a “really horrible stomach flu” on Oct. 17, according to her daughter Patsy. That was after the country legend began the year fighting to recover after suffering a stroke and shattering her hip in a fall. “Loretta had already been confined to bed for a few days, but then she began to feel an intense dizziness and numbness on her right side,” a friend revealed. “She told her family, ‘It’s happening again,’ and was rushed to a Nashville hospital…”
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Loretta was admitted just hours before she was scheduled to take the stage in Nashville to receive a lifetime achievement award at the CMT Artists of the Year ceremony. Actress
Sissy Spacek, who won an Oscar portraying Loretta in the biopic "Coal Miner’s Daughter," filled in for her close friend.
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While Loretta hadn’t suffered another stroke, the source continued, she “was told another could happen at any time, and that they wanted to keep her hospitalized and under observation.” But Loretta,
after rallying from setbacks before, told medics she feels that “she's near the end, and wants to go out on her own terms at her beloved ranch with loved ones by her side,” the source claimed.
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As The ENQUIRER reported earlier, Loretta first
suffered a stroke on May 4, 2017, and laid on the floor of her Hurricane Mills mansion for 14 long hours until her grandson finally found her. Then, on Jan. 8,
she revealed that she’d broken her hip — an injury that often ends in death for people over 70.
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A friend added the country queen, who's seen two of her six children precede her in death, still mourns the 1996 death of her husband, Mooney Lynn from diabetes-related illness. “Loretta is already planning her funeral,” said the insider, “which she wants to be a big celebration of her life and career — right there on the ranch!”
Loretta was admitted just hours before she was scheduled to take the stage in Nashville to receive a lifetime achievement award at the CMT Artists of the Year ceremony. Actress
Sissy Spacek, who won an Oscar portraying Loretta in the biopic "Coal Miner’s Daughter," filled in for her close friend.
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While Loretta hadn’t suffered another stroke, the source continued, she “was told another could happen at any time, and that they wanted to keep her hospitalized and under observation.” But Loretta,
after rallying from setbacks before, told medics she feels that “she's near the end, and wants to go out on her own terms at her beloved ranch with loved ones by her side,” the source claimed.
Photo credit: Getty Images
As The ENQUIRER reported earlier, Loretta first
suffered a stroke on May 4, 2017, and laid on the floor of her Hurricane Mills mansion for 14 long hours until her grandson finally found her. Then, on Jan. 8,
she revealed that she’d broken her hip — an injury that often ends in death for people over 70.
Photo credit: Getty Images
A friend added the country queen, who's seen two of her six children precede her in death, still mourns the 1996 death of her husband, Mooney Lynn from diabetes-related illness. “Loretta is already planning her funeral,” said the insider, “which she wants to be a big celebration of her life and career — right there on the ranch!”
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