Patty, 64, a member of Crossings Community Church and the church’s Artist-in-Residence, made the announcement on social media.
“Friends — Today I received confirmation that I tested positive for COVID19. We are quarantined at home,” Patty said Tuesday in a tweet.
Patty also shared the news in a video posted to Facebook, in which she explained that she hadn’t been feeling well for a couple of weeks. She said she had been traveling and returned home to Oklahoma City on March 7-8. The singer said she reached out to the Oklahoma Health Department and took the COVID-19 test on Tuesday.
Patty said she was grateful that she had been traveling and had not been at Crossings where she works with many people each week.
“As this played out, I was just around my husband,” she said in her video.
The Grammy Award-winning artist was born in Oklahoma and lived in the state until she was 3. Her musically inclined family, headed by Ron Patty, moved to Anderson, Indiana, where she grew up.
Patty, her husband, Don Peslis, and their blended family moved back to Oklahoma in 2009, where they joined Crossings, whose senior pastor Marty Grubbs, is a longtime family friend. The family lives in the north Oklahoma City metro area.
