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.

Country music legend Jeannie Seely, known as "Miss Country Soul," dies at 85 after complications from an intestinal infection at Tennessee hospital.

Jeannie Seely, the soulful country music singer behind such standards like “Don’t Touch Me,” has died. She was 85.