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Jeannie Seely
1940 - 2025
Jeannie Seely
1940 - 2025
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BORN
1940
DIED
2025
Jeannie Seely Obituary
She won a Grammy Award for her 1966 country music hit, "Don't Touch Me," and she sang popular duets with Jack Greene, including "Wish I Didn't Have to Miss You."
Seely is being remembered as a member of the Grand Ole Opry for more than 50 years – she was also the first woman ever to host a segment on the Opry.
By Legacy News Staff
(Image: Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, File)
38 Entries
Jean Chandler
September 20, 2025
Sorry for your loss I enjoyed hearing you sing. Now you can sing in heaven.
J Sieglaff
August 21, 2025
She was my mother´s favorite singer of all time. She would listen to her endlessly. This brings back so many wonderful memories of good times. Thank you Jeannie for sharing your music with us. RIP.
Janette O´Brien
August 18, 2025
May God give you strength and comfort during this difficult time. I send my condolences to her family and friends. RIP Jeannie, we love you.
Sylvia
August 14, 2025
Jennie will be Greatly Missed loved her
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Mr.Jr.
August 14, 2025
My condolences.
Ronnie Dean Hucks
August 14, 2025
In loving memory of a wonderful person. We will love you and miss you always.
J Sieglaff
August 10, 2025
I send my deepest sympathies to her family and friends. I loved watching her perform. She was one of a kind and was so loved. She will be deeply missed and forever remembered.
Donald McHale
August 8, 2025
We have loss a great legend. May she RIP and her memories be a blessing. Sending my thoughts, prayers and condolences.
Herman L. Stayman Jr.
August 7, 2025
Watched you in numerous genre and liked every one. I'm one of millions who will miss your spunk. Rest in Peace and God Bless your memory. Herman Stayman
Mr Jody brachman
August 7, 2025
I'm good u I was writing to you to give my condolences to you and your family etc rip I loved her music etc rip she seemed like a nice person I will.miss her so. I also miss dwight yoakam I loved his music. I will.miss him so. He seemed like a nice guy. I loved his movies roo. No rush take care
Kenny Gerald
August 7, 2025
In loving memory of a wonderful person. We will love you and miss you always.
Erica Shoemaker
August 7, 2025
Her song Don´t Touch Me brings back so many wonderful memories of my childhood. I will remember her forever as a symbol of country music in my youth. I send prayers and condolences to her family and friends.
Ida Douglas
August 6, 2025
Miss Sundays with Seely! She was great!
Marilyn Swanston
August 6, 2025
RIP
So enjoyed being on Larry´scountry Diner cruise where she was such a lady and
Down to earth person. A real country entertainer at her finest
Linda jones
August 6, 2025
May you rest in peace.
Renay George
August 6, 2025
Sorry to hear about your loss.My God Bless your family.God give you comfort and strength.Loved her music.Clint& Renay George
Mary Clement
August 6, 2025
Jeannie never forgot her roots and by doing so her words and music touched every life that heard her speak and sing. I loved her, and Gene, her husband. They truly were a match.
Cathy Rust
August 6, 2025
Jeannie, Thank you for your (and Gene´s) friendship thru the years. Your heart, humor and talent will never be forgotten. Ive attached a picture of you and your brothers singing on our stage at Two Rivers Campground with your friend & piano player, Tim Atwood joining in. Fond Memories.
Rusty & Cathy Rust
Sharon Gaddy
August 6, 2025
My condolences to the family & friends, of Jeannie seely y'all will be in my prayers ,Jeannie seely will be deeply missed from all her fans,,,,we love her & I so loved her beautiful music & her beautiful voice .. R.I.P JEANNIE SEELY...
Sheryl Armstrong
August 5, 2025
My husband and I visited the Grand Old Opry in June of 2018 and this lovely lady was the host! We shared the same birthday, July 6th. May she be singing with angels!
Elizabeth Bell
August 5, 2025
RIP Jeannie
Danny Bell
August 5, 2025
Sure will miss you Jeannie, I know you will be happy being with Gene once again! Love ya! The Singing Mountaineer
James Odell Medlock
August 5, 2025
Saw her and Jack a few times at Opryland Opry.
Betty Fisher
August 5, 2025
I will miss you so much on the Opry and your FB posts with pictures of the river. There will never be another like you, RIP Jeannie!
Jason Granger
August 5, 2025
To the Jeannie Seely family, to a great pioneer, a great country star, and member of the Grand Ole Opry, heartfelt thoughts and prayers in this time of great loss. - Jason Granger
Joyce Myers
August 5, 2025
Say her in concert was absolutely fabulous she´s definitely going to be missed. Listened to her every Sunday on Willys Roadhouse
Joe Wade Smith
August 5, 2025
Amy Clifton
August 5, 2025
I am heartbroken to hear of you passing. I love your music and I know you will reunite with your Opry family in the sky where you all will continue singing. Love you Jeannie!
Eleanor Marek
August 5, 2025
Rest in eternal Peace , thank you for all you´ve done for Country Music
Charles J Dillehay
August 5, 2025
I met her at the CMA fest one year such a wonderful lady she signed my badge and said have a great day she was so sweet she will be very missed by so many people
Lisa Fahey
August 4, 2025
Rest in peace dear lady, you were a class act and will always be remembered with love, I hope you´re having a grand time with our Heavenly Father, and friends and family greeted you with joy, til we meet again
Sandy Jones
August 4, 2025
You performed on stage at the Old Opry when I first sat down close to the stage. I think it was 1974.... Wonderful show. Thanks! And rest in peace.
Michael
August 4, 2025
R.I.P. our condolences to the family, friends and fans Michael Crosswhite and Jon Atkinson.
Joni Jones
August 4, 2025
So sorry to hear of her passing. We listened to her every Sunday morning on Willie's Roadhouse after church. I liked listening to the backstories of the people she interviewed. I never knew her personally, but felt like she could be a real friend. RIP, sweet lady. Someday, I'll really get to meet
Brenda Duckworth
August 4, 2025
I cherished our friendship
You were a beautiful person inside and out.
I will miss you.
Fly high Angel with your beautiful wings..
Donald Ewert
August 4, 2025
I Loved Jeannie. Some of my favorite songs of hers are "Anyone Who Knows What Love Is" "Lucky Ladies" "Can I Sleep In Your Arms" "Farm In Pensyltucky" and her duets with Jack Greene. Jeannie & Jack had one of the Best shows on the road at one time. R.I.P. Jeannie. Donald Ewert Milwaukee
Stacy Harris
August 4, 2025
I was Jeannie Seely's and Jack Greene's publicist during the singers' Top Billing agency days.
Jeannie Seely broke barriers for women in country music and was always supportive of us. During her only appearance on a local Nashville TV call-in show, a few years back (championing the Grand Ole Opry Trust Fund), I called in to express how kind and patient she had been with me the first time I interviewed her (over a half-century before).
I knew next to nothing about country music at the time and likely asked her a lot of stock questions. (The was well before the advent of the Internet and the Country Music Foundation Library had nowhere near the resources it has today).
Jeannie responded by complimenting me and noting that she had kept up with my career advances and accomplishments, as I had hers. Jeannie wanted to make sure the program emcee and the audience knew that she was not alone in making contributions to, and fighting the misogyny of, Music Row.
I will miss, but always be grateful for, time spent with Jeannie backstage at the Grand Ole Opry. There wasn't a time she didn't teach me by example.
Howard and Darlene Linton
August 4, 2025
We are fans from Saint John NB Canada and we met Jeannie a few times as we were visiting Nashville. She was a wonderful lady and so friendly to us. We enjoyed her pictures each day of the Cumberland River and we would listen to Sunday's with Seely. We are going to miss this remarkable lady. Until we meet again. Howard and Darlene Linton.
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