R.I.P.: Country Singer Joey Feek At Age 40

Joey Marie Feek was ready — she was peaceful and accepting, believing that it wasn’t God’s will for her to be healed from the stage 4 cervical cancer she’d fought off and on for nearly two years.


Mrs. Feek, 40, lost her battle with cancer at 2:30 p.m. Friday afternoon, reports The Tennessean.

“I’ve prayed and prayed and prayed I’d discover I was healed,” Mrs. Feek said in November. “But I realized I was healed in a different way. I was healed in my relationship with Christ, because it just drew me closer.”

“Children are never ours,” Mrs. Feek’s mother, June Martin, said tearfully during her daughter’s illness. She also lost her son, Justin, in a car accident in 1994. “God just lends them to us for a while. I believe that. Don’t be angry. It’s easy to be. I have been a couple of times. It’s his call. He is in charge. We’re all given a day to die. None of us are going to live forever.”

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Country music fans first met Mrs. Feek in 2008 — she and husband Rory comprised Grammy-nominated duo Joey+Rory, which placed third on the inaugural season of CMT’s reality talent search “Can You Duet.” Their debut single, “Cheater, Cheater,” climbed to No. 30 on Billboard’s country radio airplay charts, and they were named spokespeople for Overstock.com. They released seven albums, including "Hymns That Are Important To Us" that topped Billboard's Country Albums sales chart in February.

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