"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.

She blazed a trail for women in country music with the candor of her songs and her bold fashion sense. She was the first woman to host a segment on the Opry.

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