"We had many wonderful laughs together, cried over certain things together and she will be missed," the musician's friend Dolly Parton wrote in a statement.

NEW YORK (AP) — Jeannie Seely, the soulful country music singer behind such standards like “Don’t Touch Me,” has died. She was 85. Her publicist, Don Murry Grubbs, said she died Friday after succumbing to complications from an intestinal infection.

Jeannie Seely, the Grammy-winning country music artist and Grand Ole Opry legend, has died. She was 85. The artist’s rep revealed to multiple outlets that Seely died on Friday at Summit Medical Center in Hermitage,