Joey Feek | Rory Feek | Joey Feek was a very strong woman, she fought cancer till her last breath

Joey Feek was born on September 9, 1975  in Alexandria, Indiana, USA. In 2002,   She married Rory freek, with whom  he started the duo Joey + Rory.   In June 2014, Joey was diagnosed with cervical  cancer not long after the birth of the couple's   daughter Indiana. In 2015, Joey announced  that the cancer had returned and spread   to her colon. That October, Rory revealed in  a blog post that Joey's cancer was terminal,   and they were stopping all treatment. On  November 9, 2015, Rory announced via his blog   THISLIFEILIVE that Joey had entered hospice care.  In November 2015, she began receiving in-house,   end-of-life hospice palliative care at her  family's home in Alexandria, Indiana. In a   November 2015 interview with The Tennessean, Joey  stated that she was not angry or depressed with   God but was disappointed, that after undergoing  radical gynecological surgery to eradicate it,   the cancer had returned as inoperable and  terminal. In the newspaper article, Joey   said she hoped to die peacefully in her sleep, to  live to see Christmas of 2015 and, if possible,   her daughter's second birthday in February  2016, all of which she achieved. Her husband,   Rory, has kept a blog of their experience, and the  couple maintained a positive attitude and demeanor   in her last weeks and months. However, in January  2016, Mr. Feek, in a sad but grateful blog post,   titled "When I'm Gone", revealed that, following  an emotional talk with Joey, and reflecting that   they had been able to spend Christmas and the New  Year with their family and friends, said that,   as opposed to before when they were still more  optimistic, they both had come to terms with and   accepted her terminal diagnosis and worsening  health (her morphine dose needed to keep the   cancer pain under control had quadrupled  in the prior four days before the post),   and let nature to take its course. She was able to  celebrate her daughter Indiana's second birthday   and Valentine's Day with her husband Rory and  her daughter, and was later able to help make a   meal for the three on her bed, though she was now  confined to her bed, and was showing the effects   of terminal cancer (weight, body mass, and hair  loss). In early March, after saying her goodbyes   to her family and relatives, she fell into a deep  sleep from which she was not expected to recover   or awaken, showing signs of organ dysfunction  and shutdown due to the cancer, according to   her husband Rory and the attending hospice nurse.  Rory was able to post a goodbye tribute video, but   afterward was at his wife's side as she entered  her last few days. He had found a type of closure,   because they had said goodbye, her pain levels  had been increasing prior to that point, and the   couple had reached every milestone that they had  realistically set - Christmas and the New Year,   Valentine's Day, the Grammys, and Indiana's  birthday. Joey died (age 40) with her husband   at her side around 2:30 pm on March 4, 2016. Gave birth to her only child at age 38,   a daughter named Indiana Feek (Indiana  Boone Feek), on February 17, 2014.   She was born with Down syndrome. Child's  father is her widowed husband, Rory Feek.