PARTON PAYS TRIBUTE TO COUNTRY DOCTOR

Last updated: Tuesday, May 22, 2007

PARTON PAYS TRIBUTE TO COUNTRY DOCTOR

Country music queen DOLLY PARTON lavished praise on the doctor who brought her into the world at a benefit concert in her native Sevier County, Tennessee, on Sunday (20May07).

Dolly Parton performing in concert held at the Ijsselhallen. Zwolle, Holland - 18.03.07

The Jolene singer was raising money for the new Fort Sanders Sevier Medical Center, cancer centre and medical office, which is expected to open in 2009.

Parton told the audience it was a project close to her heart because "all of my family has been down there at one time or another".

She also paid tribute to a special doctor at the centre of the hospital venture, Robert F. Thomas.

She explained, "He's the one that rode on horseback so many years ago, when I was a young'un back in them mountains. I was born and paid for with a sack of cornmeal."

Parton is honorary chairwoman of the Dr. Robert F. Thomas Foundation, which has pledged $10 million (GBP5 million) to the hospital project.

Source: WENN

| Tuesday, May 22, 2007

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