When Robert Lee Parton died in 2000, the illiterate former sharecropper asked his large musical family to sing “If We Never Meet Again (This Side of Heaven),” his favorite countrygospel song.
“If we never meet again this side of heaven / As we struggle through this world and its strife / There’s another meeting place somewhere in heaven / By the river of life,” they sang.
Recalling that family salut…