Country singer Joey Feek passes away after battle with cancer

After a long battle with cancer, Joey Feek of country music duo Joey and Rory has died.

"My wife has been asleep for days now and her body is shutting down quickly", Feek wrote Monday on his blog, This Life I Live.

Because when Joey takes her last breath here, she will take her first breath in heaven. Last October, she revealed her cancer was terminal.

Rory said he went through pictures over the weekend and let them take him back to when they first met. He also came across a song they recorded a few years ago, but never made it onto an album.

"We all cried with my wife as she told her how much her mama loved her and 'you be a big girl for your papa...and that mama will be watching over you, '" Rory wrote. He said Joey was surrounded by her family at the time. In the days before her death, Mrs. Feek said her greatest hope for her daughter was that she grew up with no fear and that she was able to fall in love, get married and live independently near her father.

"After four-and-a-half months in IN, we will soon be back home in Tennessee", he added. One of five children, she started singing at age 5 and her first performance was at a local elementary school.

"I pray that one morning I just don't wake up", she said.

Around 2001, Sony signed Martin to a recording contract and selected veteran producers Paul Worley and Billy Crain to oversee her first (and, as it turned out, last) album for the label. "You want them to not have to hurt anymore more than that you want them to stay with you".

It seems as though Joey is holding on to every last moment, as she held her eldest step-daughter Heidi's hand Thursday night. "To the songs that she will leave behind here on earth and the ones she will soon sing for eternity to our sweet Lord in that heavenly choir up yonder".

The couple formed a country duo in 2008, coming up with "Joey + Rory" after being asked for a stage name by the country music reality show, "Can You Duet", Rory explained in a blog post.

Rory posted about the happy holidays on his blog, admitting that Joey's health and high spirits were nothing short of a Christmas miracle. "I can honestly say, that I have done everything I wanted to do and lived the life I always wanted to live.'" According to a June 2015 blog post by Rory, Joey was diagnosed with cancer in 2014 and had surgery to remove the tumor.

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