.It is with a heavy heart we say goodbye to a true icon to us here the Opry, Mrs. Jeannie Seely. 🤍 Jeannie is the definition of a mentor and dear friend to many in the country music community. She first appeared at the Opry in 1966 and while it was her first time being shoulder… pic.twitter.com/Buf18pyXs9

Aug. 2 (UPI) -- Singer Jeannie Seely, who helped transform the image of women in country music, has died. She was 85. Seely died Friday in a hospice in the Nashville area, the Country Music Association said, and her publicist, Don Murray Grubbs told told The Tennessean that she died after an intestinal infection.