To answer that fan question: The cause of death for the Biscuit Lady, Carol Fay Ellison

“To answer that fan question” is the part of NashvilleGab where I take the sometimes funny things readers have ended up on the website searching for and actually answer them in a somewhat coherent way.
Well now this is an odd thing people are ending up on NashvilleGab searching for. I don’t know if “Carol Fay Ellison’s cause of death” has ended up as some morbid trivia question or what, but for several days this has been a huge search.
From what I understand, Carol Fay was on television quite a bit and so I’m thinking maybe an episode of something that she was on has aired and maybe it had an “in memoriam” or something like that and people have suddenly become curious. Anyway, here goes.
I’ve looked and looked and looked some more and I actually can’t find a cause of death for Carol Fay. I never met her personally, but I’ve heard a lot about her. From what I understand, her biscuits at the Loveless Cafe were the yummiest thing this side of heaven
The Biscuit Lady died on April 5, 2010, at the age of 48, and was mourned by it seemed everyone — celebrity and normal folk alike. She had been hospitalized for 3-1/2 weeks before she passed away, but that like her death was never explained.
Here’s her obituary that was printed in The Tennessean.