New Delhi, Aug. 29 -- NASHVILLE - The Parton sisters had a standing appointment. Every Tuesday morning, before the sun came up, Dolly and Stella would get on the phone. Dolly Parton died on a Tuesday.

Stella Parton, one of eleven siblings and a recording artist in her own right, wrote about those calls in a Facebook tribute this week, Euronews reported, and included something her sister had told her that had not been public. If there was no hope left for her, Dolly said, she would still allow her medical team to try experimental drugs, in the hope that what they learned might help someone else later.

That is a small paragraph in a grieving woman's post, and it is also the most specific thing anyone has said about how Dolly Parton approa...