PASSINGS
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
Avie Parton, 80 -- mother of country music star Dolly Parton who stitched the patchwork rag coat for young Dolly that the singer recounted in the song, “Coat of Many Colors,” died Friday after a long illness in Sevierville, Tenn.
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