Colt Ford performs during the final night of the Barefoot Country Music Festival on the beach in Wildwood, Sunday, Aug. 22, 2021. Tim Hawk | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com
Colt Ford took to social media on Wednesday with some heartbreaking news.
The country music star announced that his father has died.
‘This video was hard to make,” Ford said in a video posted to his Instagram profile. “It was a blessing to have my add for 89 … he was 89-years-old. He got to see me play in Athens with Brantley and that made him so happy. I’m so grateful for all the prayers, but last night he went home to be with the Lord, and I’m at peace with it.”
Ford thanked his fans for their support.
“Thank y’all for all your prayers and wishes,” he said. “He passed away right there in his house that he loved with my mama on one hand, married 62 years, and my son, Reynolds, on the other hand. His grandson that he thought hung the moon, and he just eased off.
“God bless y’all.”
Prayers and well-wishes flooded in on the post.
Love ya buddy,” Jake Owen responded. “Your daddy as a great man, just like you.”
“Love and prayers to you my friend,” Uncle Kracker wrote.
“Love you Colt,” Adam Calhoun wrote.
“Love you, brother,” Joe Don Rooney responded. “I know the pain — it’s unbearable. But his soul lives within you everywhere you go from here on out. Praying for you & your family, my friend.”
There were plenty more responses like that, and you can see them here.
Ford has made plenty of headlines across the past year after he dropped dead — he actually died twice and was revived each time — following a show last April. But he was on social media last Friday asking fans to divert the prayers they have been sending him to his father.
“FaceTiming with My Hero My Dad,” he wrote on Instagram while sharing a photo that showed him eating a popsicle while talking to his father, who was in bed and obviously connected to oxygen. “Y’all say some prayers for My Dad not doing to well. Thank yall for all the one’s for me if ya don’t mind give em to Him.
“I Love Ya Coach keep fighting.”
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