{"id":16183,"date":"2021-09-08T11:00:53","date_gmt":"2021-09-08T15:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/?p=16183"},"modified":"2021-09-08T06:46:43","modified_gmt":"2021-09-08T10:46:43","slug":"ronnie-milsaps-wife-passes-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2021\/09\/ronnie-milsaps-wife-passes-away\/","title":{"rendered":"Ronnie Milsap&#8217;s Wife Passes Away"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ronnie Milsap is mourning the loss of his wife, Joyce, who died on Monday, September 6th at the age of 81 after 54 years of marriage.<\/p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"insta-iframe\" src=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CTgD6Cfs4jd\/embed\/captioned\" width=\"auto\" height=\"auto\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display:inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height:0;\"  class=\"mce_SELRES_start\"><\/span><\/iframe>\n<p>Ronnie referred to Joyce as his &#8220;sapphire.&#8221; He is quoted in her obituary as saying,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;There are no words, and not enough songs in the world to explain how much I love my Sapphire. She was the music and the feeling inside all of those songs, so if you loved my music, you understand some of how much I loved my my beautiful, beautiful wife. It&#8217;s all in the songs, but she was even more. She was the love of my life, the mother of my son, the world&#8217;s happiest grandmother . . . Blessedly\/Thankfully, she&#8217;s in heaven with our Todd \u2013 and I know somehow from heaven, she&#8217;s still here with me every day, because that&#8217;s just how she was.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Todd is their son who died in 2019 at the age of 49.<\/p>\n<p>According to USA Today, Joyce battled leukemia in 2014 and was unable to attend the ceremony inducting Ronnie into the Country Music Hall of Fame at the time.<\/p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"insta-iframe\" src=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CTfiPkALs4C\/embed\/captioned\" width=\"auto\" height=\"auto\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display:inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height:0;\"  class=\"mce_SELRES_start\"><\/span><\/iframe>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ronnie Milsap is mourning the loss of his wife, Joyce, who died on Monday, September 6th at the age of 81 after 54 years of marriage.","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":15997,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"No","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[3238,3239],"class_list":["post-16183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-country-music-news","tag-joyce-milsap","tag-ronnie-milsap"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-13 00:14:59","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/country959.com\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2021\/09\/ronnie-milsaps-wife-passes-away\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16183\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}