3-Year-Old Reba McEntire Was the Absolute Cutest in Her Easter Sunday Dress (PIC)

Long before she was winning Grammy Awards, performing at the Opry, and singing duets with fellow country icons like Trisha Yearwood, Reba McEntire was just like the rest of us — lining up for a photo on Easter Sunday with her siblings, at the request of mom. And, of course, the Happy’s Place star was dressed to the nines in an adorable spring dress.

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3-year-old Reba McEntire looked so cute in her Easter Sunday dress in 1958

In 2020, McEntire delighted her legions of fans with a precious childhood photo of the country star when she was just 3 years old on Easter Sunday in 1958. 

In the throwback photo, McEntire was dressed in a tutu-style dress with white socks and shoes as she posed outside with her older siblings. Her brother Pake wore a white shirt and bow tie with a black derby hat, while her sister Alice was also dressed in a poofy dress. 

“Being Easter Sunday, I have been looking for this picture all day,” McEntire captioned the photo, thanking her younger sister Susie for tracking it down. “Mama had gotten Pake, me, and Alice ready for Easter Sunday.”

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Reba McEntire and her siblings grew up on a cattle ranch in Oklahoma

Born on March 28, 1955, McEntire grew up in Chockie, Oklahoma on a massive cattle ranch — and she loved it. 

“I guess growing up in an itty bitty town — Chockie, Oklahoma, population 18 — you’d think, ‘Wow, that’s rough start.’ I didn’t think so,” McEntire said in a video for the Horatio Alger Association. “I loved growing up in Oklahoma. We were out on a 8,000-acre cattle ranch, we worked hard, we played hard. It was a sense of unity, everybody working together.”

McEntire credits her late mother, Jaqueline, with teaching her and her siblings the importance of “always having each other’s backs” and to be a “tight knit family.” The Voice Coach alum also credits her mom with teaching them all how to sing. “When we were rodeoing, we didn’t have a radio so mama would get us all to singing and do harmony. She taught us harmony,” McEntire said in the same video. 

The “I’m a Survivor” singer and her siblings eventually formed a group and became known as the Singing McEntires, thanks to her mother’s guidance. “She was really encouraging for all of us kids, whatever we wanted to do. Pake, Susie, and I, we sang … she encouraged us, we were the Singing McEntires when we were in high school and junior high. She pretty much instigated that,” McEntire told Jenna Bush Hager and Hoda Kotb on TODAY. 

Her mother’s influence and connection to music was so strong for McEntire that she nearly quit singing when Jaqueline passed away in 2020. “I told Susie, we were, we were cleaning out the house, and I was going through pictures,” McEntire recalled on TODAY. “And I said, ‘I just don’t think I’m going to do this anymore.’ She said, ‘What?’ I said, ‘Sing.’” 

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McEntire shared that her mom was the reason she sang. “I always did it for mama,” she told the TODAY co-hosts. Her sister assured her that her desire to sing would eventually come back and, as McEntire confirmed, “It did.”

From growing up together in Oklahoma to comforting each other during life’s harder moments and reminiscing about past Easter Sundays, McEntire clearly shares a very special bond with her siblings to this day.