Loretta Lynn, coal miner’s daughter and country queen, dies

Country music singer Loretta Lynn (Christoper Berkey/AP)

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 the age of 90.

In a statement provided to The Associated Press, Lynn’s family said she died on Tuesday at her home in Hurricane Mills, Tennessee.