"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 -- 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.

GRAMMY-winning country singer Jeannie Seely has died at the age of 85. The Grand Ole Opry star died at Summit Medical Center in Tennessee after reportedly suffering from complications from an