Gov. Bill Lee (R-TN) announced a proposal Friday to rename Tennessee‘s largest airport after the late Dolly Parton, the legendary singer whose death earlier this week rocked millions of fans across the United States.
The Tennessee native died in Nashville on Tuesday at 80 after a brief battle with cancer, according to her family. A public campaign to rename the Nashville airport materialized shortly after. As of Friday evening, a petition to name the site the “Dolly Parton International Airport” has garnered over 160,000 signatures.
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