Rory Feek Shares Details of Joey’s Funeral Service

On Tuesday (3/8), Joey+Rory’s Joey Feek was laid to rest on the farm she shared with her husband Rory and their two-year-old daughter Indiana.

Just several days after, late on Saturday night, Rory took to his blog, This Life I Live, to give fans a glimpse of the private ceremony attended by family and friends.

“On Tuesday we laid my beautiful wife to rest. In a grove of sassafras trees behind our farmhouse, with friends and family gathered around, we said goodbye to the greatest person I have ever known,” he wrote.

The service was held in the couple’s barn, a place they had held many concerts and events over the years. Several attendees were people who had known Joey her entire life, including the pastor that had baptized the late singer. Rory’s sister Marcy, Joey’s sister Julie and their manager Aaron all took turns to speak.

“When it came my time to speak, I walked up on the stage and stood looking at my wife’s sweet picture… and words were not enough to let her know how much she meant to me – how much she still means to me.”

As the service concluded in the barn, guests made their way out to the family cemetery on the property. “At the gravesite, Mike Glenn – our pastor in Tennessee, spoke of the better place that Joey’s in and also of the better place that the world is because Joey was in it.”

The rest of the afternoon was spent together, exchanging stories and memories of Joey. As the guests made their way home, Rory and Indiana returned to Joey’s grave site for some more time with the woman who was taken too soon.

“And when most of the guest had gone and the sun was starting to fade, Indy and I took the short walk together into the back field to see her mama one more time,” he said. “And we stayed awhile and talked with her. And then we took a deep breath and did what Joey would want us to do. We remembered that she’s still with us. She’ll always be with us. In our hearts. Forever.”

Joey Martin Feek memorial video from Hickory Films on Vimeo.