“It probably has something to do with permanence”.
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“I think that maybe, like me, they rarely get to see a handsome love story”, Rory Feek said of sharing Joey’s story.
Joey Feek, the other half of the country music duo Joey + Rory, died in March after a two-year battle with cervical cancer, which was discovered just weeks after she gave birth to daughter in, now 2 years old, in 2014. “All those years of marriage, and all of that life that she had, until I started going through the footage, and then I saw her come back to life”. “Although I know it’s not”.
Feek said it’s been comforting to be back on the Tennessee farm he and Joey shared and where she was buried in a cemetery about 100 yards behind their home.
“Rory even revealed how he has been unable to purchase a headstone for Joey’s final resting place located on their farm in Pottsville, Tenn”. So, for now, I can sit out here and feel like it’s – it’s maybe just temporary.
Rory Feek documented the journey of Joey’s battle with cancer, and the birth of the couple’s daughter named IN on film and IN his blog entitled “This Life I Live”. “She’s really not coming back?'” “I don’t want to be onstage without her”, he explains.”It wasn’t something that I loved that much, to be onstage performing”. So I won’t say never.
The musician, who was a single dad to daughters Heidi, 29, and Hopie, 27, from a previous relationship, also talked to People about becoming a single father again.
More than six months after his wife passed away, country singer Rory Feek says that he still hasn’t completely come to terms with her being gone.
Joey, who was one half of the Grammy-nominated country duo Joey + Rory, passed away in March following a two-year-battle with cervical cancer. You’re not supposed to have to do this again.’ I said, “But on the other hand, I’m flawless. Although I know it’s not”.
Rory told PEOPLE: “When the time came that we realized that Joey was most likely not going to make it through this cancer. one of the hardest things was coming to realize that I was going to be back here again where I was before, but this time raising IN”.
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“God just keeps showing up”, says Rory of his life now, “and magically making what are our worst fears attractive”.
