{"id":186542,"date":"2025-08-13T00:00:57","date_gmt":"2025-08-13T00:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/13\/reba-mcentire-pays-tribute-to-brandon-blackstock\/"},"modified":"2025-08-13T00:00:57","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T00:00:57","slug":"reba-mcentire-pays-tribute-to-brandon-blackstock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/13\/reba-mcentire-pays-tribute-to-brandon-blackstock\/","title":{"rendered":"Reba McEntire pays tribute to Brandon Blackstock"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"byline\">\n<p>        <time itemprop=\"datePublished\" content=\"2025-08-13\" datetime=\"1755043257\" pubdate=\"\">13 August 2025<\/time>\n    <\/p>\n<p>Reba McEntire has paid tribute to her former stepson <a href=\"https:\/\/www.femalefirst.co.uk\/brandon-blackstock\/\" class=\"exposure-link \" data-linktrack=\"LinkTracker,articleExposure,brandon-blackstock\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Brandon Blackstock<\/a> following his death.<\/p>\n<p>                            <\/p>\n<p class=\"image-caption landscape\">Reba McEntire pays tribute to Brandon Blackstock<\/p>\n<p>Brandon, 48, passed away last week after a secret three-year battle with melanoma and Reba \u2013 who was married to Brandon&#8217;s father Narvel Blackstock from 1989 to 2015 \u2013 shared her grief in a comment on her son Shelby Blackstock\u2019s Instagram post.<\/p>\n<p>Shelby \u2013 Brandon\u2019s half brother \u2013 posted some pictures of Brandon and wrote: &#8220;Words cannot begin to capture the tremendous loss our family has endured. Yesterday, we lost a brother, a father, a grandfather, and a son. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.femalefirst.co.uk\/brandon-blackstock\/\" class=\"exposure-link \" data-linktrack=\"LinkTracker,articleExposure,brandon-blackstock\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Brandon Blackstock<\/a> was an irreplaceable part of our family &#8211; funny, bright, and full of life &#8211; and he will be deeply missed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor every treasured moment we shared, there are so many more we\u2019ll never get to make together, but I know you\u2019ll still be there. Every hunt, every flight, and in the everyday moments of life, I\u2019ll feel your presence. And although it may annoy you, you\u2019ll have to watch me do it all just a little better, a little smoother, and &#8211; let\u2019s be honest &#8211; looking far more handsome than you ever could in the process.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will always miss you, Brandon, and we will never stop loving, remembering and celebrating you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\nReba, 70, commented: \u201cVery well said Shelby. Yes we will miss him so much,\u201d and added a number of heart and broken heart emojis.<\/p>\n<p>\nBrandon\u2019s obituary, shared on buttefuneral.com, previously revealed that he died \u201cpeacefully\u201d at home, surrounded by his family.<\/p>\n<p>\nIt stated: \u201cNarvel Brandon Blackstock peacefully passed to be with the Lord on the morning of August 7th, 2025, after a brave and courageous 3-year battle with cancer. He was surrounded in his home by his family, who comforted him and lovingly handed him off to his grandparents in heaven, who welcomed him home.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- Pagination --><\/p>\n<p><!-- playbuzz --><br \/>\n<!-- end playbuzz--><\/p>\n<p><!-- \n\n<div data-cn-project=\"femalefirst\">\n    \n<\/div>\n\n --><\/p>\n<p><!-- Outbrain { date: 2018\/06\/08 } --><br \/>\n<!-- Outbrain { date: 2018\/06\/08 } --><\/p>\n<p>    <!-- Outbrain { date: 2018\/06\/08 } --><br \/>\n    <!-- Outbrain { date: 2018\/06\/08 } --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.femalefirst.co.uk\/celebrity\/reba-mcentire-pays-tribute-brandon-blackstock-1427692.html?f=rss\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>13 August 2025 Reba McEntire has paid tribute to her former stepson Brandon Blackstock following his death. Reba McEntire pays tribute to Brandon Blackstock Brandon, 48, passed away last week after a secret three-year battle with melanoma and Reba \u2013 who was married to Brandon&#8217;s father Narvel Blackstock from 1989 to 2015 \u2013 shared her [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":186543,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[2300,637],"class_list":{"0":"post-186542","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-make-up","8":"tag-brandon-blackstock","9":"tag-reba-mcentire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186542","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186542\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/186543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}