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 Grammy winner still performed regularly on the Grand Ole Opry, which she joined in 1967, and was host of a Sunday afternoon show on satellite radio.