Jeannie Seely, Beloved Opry Star and Country Icon, Dead at 85 originally appeared on Parade. Country music lost one of its most beloved stars on Friday, August 1, when Jeannie Seely passed away at Summit Medical Center in Hermitage, Tennessee.

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.