She Was Just 18 and Full of Light: Chloe Childress, the Mystic Camp Counselor Missing in the Texas Floods, Receives Quiet Royal Honor and a Surprise $1 Million Donation That Turned Heads Sources close to the family have confirmed what started as a quiet rumor: Country singer Dolly Parton—who sent a handwritten letter to Chloe’s grieving parents, along with a $1 million donation in her honor. The gift wasn’t announced. It wasn’t made public. In fact, even the charity that received the donation was told only that it was “on behalf of a young woman who gave her all at the age of 18.”