Following the devastating news of Carl Dean's death, Billy Ray Cyrus and his ex-wife, Tish Cyrus, are sending love to their longtime friend, Dolly Parton, who is mourning her husband. Parton announced his passing in a statement posted to Instagram on Monday (March 3),

Trace is the adopted son of Billy Ray Cyrus and biological son of Tish, from a previous relationship. Trace has been pretty private about his life, after battling addiction and forming the 2006 band Metro Station with Mason Musso, the brother of fellow Hannah Montana star, Mitchel Musso.

The ultra-private Dean died March 3 at age 82, nearly 60 years after he married Parton in 1966 Billy Ray Cyrus and his ex-wife Tish are both thinking about longtime friend Dolly Parton after the death of her husband,

LOS ANGEL ES, CALIFORNIA: Billy Ray Cyrus and his ex-wife, Tish Cyrus, who have shared a deep friendship with Dolly Parton for decades, expressed their heartfelt condolences to her after the death of her husband, Carl Dean. Dean, who was married to Parton for nearly 60 years, died on March 3 at the age of 82.