Aug. 2 (UPI) -- Singer Jeannie Seely, who helped transform the image of women in country music, has died. She was 85. Seely died Friday in a hospice in the Nashville area, the Country Music Association said, and her publicist, Don Murray Grubbs told told The Tennessean that she died after an intestinal infection.

The country music world lost a beloved star this week as Jeannie Seely passed away. She was 85 years old. According to ABC News, Seely's publicist announced that she passed away after succumbing to "complications from an intestinal infection.