Grand Ole Opry star and country music legend Jeannie Seely has passed at age 85. Seely died peacefully today at 5:00 p.m. CT at Summit Medical Center in Hermitage, Tennessee, as a result of complications from an intestinal infection.

Seely had battled health issues since last fall, which escalated in December following the passing of her husband, Gene Ward. She’d undergone multiple back surgeries this spring for vertebrae repairs, as well as two emergency abdominal surgeries.

As of her last Grand Ole Opry show on February 22, Seely had made 5,397 Opry performances, more than any other artist in the Opry’s 100-year history. In 2018 Seely began hosting her own weekly “Sundays with Seely” show on the Willie’s Roadhouse on SiriusXM, and her most recent show aired this past Sunday, July 27. A

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