Country singing legend Loretta Lynn’s first grandchild has passed away. The sad news was announced of Loretta’s official Facebook page.

Lynn Massey was only 59 years old. In the Facebook post, she is described as dying “after a long and difficult health battle.” No details about the health battle were included in the post.

FOX News reports that Lynn was the daughter of Loretta’s first child, Betty Sue Lynn. After marrying her husband, Oliver Lynn, at the age of 15, Loretta went on to have a total of six children. Betty Sue was born when Loretta was only 16 years old.

Loretta died in 2022 at the age of 90 years old. Betty Sue died in 2013 at the age of 64 years old. Her death was due to complications related to emphysema.

According to a representative that spoke to USA Today, Lynn died on August 20, 2024.

Watch the video below to learn more about Loretta, Betty Sue and Lynn.

Another one of Loretta’s granddaughters, Emmy Russell, has inherited Loretta’s musical ability. She competed on American Idol this year and made it to Hollywood. When she was younger, Russell performed on stage with her grandmother.

In Southern Living’s “Biscuits & Jam” podcast, Russell explained that her grandmother “passed down her guitar to me when I was 15 at the Ryman Auditiorium. She said ‘You’re the one that can do it.’ She always thought I had this spark about me ever since I was a little kid. She felt she needed to give me the guitar as the torch in a way.”

Russell also shared her grandmother’s advice with FOX News Digital. That advice was “to love God.” Russell said, “She was such a lover of God and I think it was more of, ‘Listen to him and follow his voice.’”