--- description: "The pain has ceased. And all her tears are dry," Joey Feek's husband Rory wrote title: Joey Feek, Country Singer, Dies of Cancer at 40 image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt32b5d33b698ba952/698880560b72e37d8e6e86b9/joey_feek.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [Entertainment](/section/entertainment/) ## Entertainment Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [remembrance](/tag/remembrance/) ## remembrance Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Joey Feek, Country Singer, Dies of Cancer at 40 by [Nick Maslow/People](/author/people/) ## Nick Maslow/People Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Mar 4, 2016 11:58 PM CUT  Joey Martin Feek at the 48th Annual Academy of Country Music Awards at the MGM Grand Garden Arena on April 7, 2013 in Las Vegas. Joey Martin Feek at the 48th Annual Academy of Country Music Awards at the MGM Grand Garden Arena on April 7, 2013 in Las Vegas.Frazer Harrison—Getty Images by [Nick Maslow/People](/author/people/) ## Nick Maslow/People Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Mar 4, 2016 11:58 PM CUT Joey Feek, half of the country and gospel duo Joey + Rory, died on Friday, ending her [brave fight with terminal cancer](http://www.people.com/people/gallery/0,,20966750%5F30414784,00.html "undefined"). She was 40. “My wife’s greatest dream came true today,” Rory, 50, wrote in an emotional post to his blog [This Life I Live](http://thislifeilive.com/a-dream-come-true/ "undefined"). “She is in Heaven. The cancer is gone. The pain has ceased. And all her tears are dry.” Rory indicated she passed at 2:30 p.m. while “surrounded by loved ones.” [Read more at People.com ](http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20991939,00.html "undefined") ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4248610/joey-feek-singer-cancer-dies/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4248610/joey-feek-singer-cancer-dies/"},"headline":"Joey Feek, Country Singer, Dies of Cancer at 40","datePublished":"2016-03-04T23:58:04.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T15:38:51.122Z","description":"\"The pain has ceased. And all her tears are dry\"","url":"https://time.com/4248610/joey-feek-singer-cancer-dies/","keywords":["remembrance"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt32b5d33b698ba952/698880560b72e37d8e6e86b9/joey_feek.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Nick Maslow/People"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt32b5d33b698ba952/698880560b72e37d8e6e86b9/joey_feek.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Joey Martin Feek","caption":"Joey Martin Feek","creditText":"Frazer Harrison—Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/remembrance/","name":"remembrance"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4248610/joey-feek-singer-cancer-dies/","name":"Joey Feek, Country Singer, Dies of Cancer at 40"}}]}] ```