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Also Known As Loretta Webb
Born April 14, 1932 • Kentucky
Died October 4, 2022 (aged 90) • Tennessee
Awards And Honors Grammy Award • Presidential Medal of Freedom (2013) • Grammy Award (2004) • Kennedy Center Honors (2003) • Grammy Award (1971)
Notable Works “Wouldn’t It Be Great”

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George Jones, 1982
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Reba McEntire smiling and wearing a ruffled gray jacket and necklace, with shoulder-length red hair, photographed in 2009.
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