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.

Country star Jeannie Seely, who rose to fame in the '60s and '70s and became one of the Grand Ole Opry's most beloved performers, has died at 85.