- Married Oliver Lynn at age 16. Four of their six children were born by the time Loretta was 21. She became a first-time grandmother at age 34.
- Related to singer Patty Loveless. Older sister of Crystal Gayle.
- Oldest daughter, Betty Sue Lynn, died from emphysema on July 29, 2013.
- Oldest son, Jack Benny Lynn, drowned while fording the Duck River at the family's ranch on July 22, 1984.
- One of five recipients of the 2003 Kennedy Center Honors; other recipients were James Brown, Carol Burnett, Mike Nichols and Itzhak Perlman.
- Loretta's husband was born Oliver Lynn but went by the nicknames Doolittle, and Mooney because he used to manage moonshine in Kentucky.
- She was the first woman to receive the Country Music Association's Entertainer of the Year award (1972).
- Has Native American Cherokee ancestry.
- During the making of Coal Miner's Daughter (1980), she said to have fainted when she saw Levon Helm in full makeup and wardrobe because of his amazing resemblance to her real father Ted Webb.
- Mother of actresses Patsy Lynn and Peggy Lynn.
- She was the first country music singer to appear on the cover of Newsweek magazine (1973).
- Awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Barack Obama (2013).
- From 1977 through 1989, she was the popular spokesperson for Crisco Products from Procter and Gamble.
- In 2006, she underwent shoulder surgery after injuring herself in a fall. There were complications during the procedure and she had to be revived by doctors. The operation was successfully completed later.
- Holds the Amateur National Motocross Championships every year on her ranch in Hurricane Mills, Tennessee. They are appropriately called "Loretta Lynn's MX Championships".
- She was awarded a star on the Music City Walk of Fame in Nashville, Tennessee on June 4, 2015.
- Was named after screen legend Loretta Young.
- She and her younger sister Crystal Gayle are the only siblings to each make guest appearances on The Muppet Show (1976).
- Inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame (1982), the Country Music Hall of Fame (1988), the Country Gospel Music Hall of Fame (1999), and the American Songwriters Hall of Fame (2008).
- Came under fire in May 2012 when her birth certificate was unearthed by the media, revealing that Lynn has been lying about her age for decades. She was actually almost 16 at the time of her marriage, not 13 as she told the world. The discrepancy is significant because it completely alters the narrative Lynn has spun in books and public references. In reality, it would have been illegal for a girl under the age of 15 to marry in Kentucky.
- Ranked #65 on VH1's Greatest Women of Rock N Roll
- Supported George W. Bush during the 2000 presidential election.
- On May 4, 2017, she was hospitalized in Nashville after suffering a stroke.
- Supported Donald Trump during the 2016 presidential election.
- Has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
- Lynn scored 24 No. 1 hit singles and 11 number one albums.
- Had allowed PETA to use her song, "I Wanna Be Free," to discourage the chaining of dogs outside, in 2013.
- Lynn was married for almost 50 years until her husband died at age 69 in 1996. 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. Lynn and her husband fought frequently, but she said that "he never hit me one time that I didn't hit him back twice.".
- Lynn recorded 70 albums including 54 studio albums, 15 compilation albums, and one tribute album,.
- In 2010, Lynn missed a tribute to her from other women of country music due to undergoing knee surgery.
- Lynn owned a ranch in Hurricane Mills, Tennessee, known as Loretta Lynn's Ranch. Billed as "the Seventh Largest Attraction in Tennessee", it features a recording studio, museums, lodging, restaurants and western stores. Traditionally, three holiday concerts are hosted annually at the ranch, Memorial Day Weekend, Fourth of July Weekend, and Labor Day Weekend.
- She was inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1983, the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1988, and the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2008, and she was honored in 2010 at the Country Music Awards.
- A statue of Loretta Lynn was unveiled on the Ryman's Icon Walk. [20 October 2020].
- Loretta Lynn is interred, alongside Oliver Lynn and one of her children (Betty Sue), at The Lynn Family Estate Cemetery, in Hurricane Mills, Tennessee, USA.
- Began songwriting at age 28.
- Her music was inspired by issues she faced in her marriage. She increased the boundaries in the conservative genre of country music by singing about birth control ("The Pill"), repeated childbirth ("One's on the Way"), double standards for men and women ("Rated 'X'"), and being widowed by the draft during the Vietnam War ("Dear Uncle Sam").
- The former Miss America, Venus Ramey, who died in 2017, was also her distant cousin.
- Lynn was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by Barack Obama in 2013.
- Through her matriline, Lynn is distant cousins with country singer Patty Loveless (née Ramey).
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