Country music legend Dolly Parton offered to let doctors test experimental drugs on her during her cancer battle, hoping the results could someday help other patients, her sister says.
In a tribute on Instagram, Stella Parton said Dolly told her that “if there was no hope for her, she would still allow her medical team to try experimental drugs in the hope of helping others in the future.”
Ms. Parton added that her sister was “one of the most generous, thoughtful and kind people I’ve ever known” and that “what the world saw is exactly who she was.”
Ms. Parton also recalled the Tuesday morning phone coffee dates she shared with her sister for years, saying they took place “before the sun came up and the world was still asleep” and the ritual “will never be the same.”
“My sister was always thinking of others and if you want to honor her legacy, show more kindness, lift others up and give more of your time and resources as she continued to do to the very end,” Ms. Parton wrote.
Parton, 80, died Aug. 25 at Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center. She was buried Friday after a private ceremony at Woodlawn Memorial Park and Mausoleum in Nashville, Tennessee.
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