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Tammy Faye Messner | |
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 Messner in 2004 | |
| Born | Tamara Faye LaValley March 7, 1942 |
| Died | July 20, 2007 (aged 65) Loch Lloyd, Missouri, U.S. |
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| Years active | 1962–2007 |
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| Children | 2, including Jay Bakker |
Tamara Faye Messner (née LaValley, formerly Bakker /ˈbeɪkər/; March 7, 1942 – July 20, 2007) was an American evangelist. She co-founded the televangelist program The PTL Club with her husband Jim Bakker in 1974.[1] They had hosted their own puppet-show series for local programming in the early 1960s; Messner also had a career as a recording artist.[1] In 1978, she and Bakker built Heritage USA, a Christian theme park.[1]
During her career Messner was noted for her eccentric and glamorous persona, as well as for moral views that diverged from those of many mainstream evangelists, particularly her advocacy for LGBT persons and reaching out to HIV/AIDS patients at the height of the AIDS epidemic.[2][3] She released three autobiographies during her lifetime, I Gotta Be Me in 1978,[4] Tammy: Telling it My Way in 1996, and I Will Survive and You Will Too! in 2003.[5]
Jim Bakker was indicted, convicted, and imprisoned on numerous counts of fraud and conspiracy in 1989, resulting in the dissolution of The PTL Club.[1] She divorced Bakker in 1992, while he was in prison, and married Roe Messner.[6] She was diagnosed with colon cancer in 1996, from which she suffered intermittently for over a decade before dying of the disease in 2007.[6]
- ^ a b c d "30 Years Later, a Look Back at Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker's Scandal-Filled Ministry". Distractify. January 17, 2019. Retrieved July 8, 2019.
- ^ Abernethy, Michael (July 18, 2010). "Tammy Faye Never Understood What That Whole Gay Thing Was About". PopMatters. Retrieved June 27, 2018.
- ^ Johnson, M. Alex (July 22, 2007). "Through it all, Tammy Faye never wavered". NBC News. Archived from the original on July 25, 2018. Retrieved June 27, 2018.
- ^ I Gotta Be Me Goodreads accessed 2/12/2022
- ^ Amazon Book Listing Tammy Faye Author accessed 2-12-2021
- ^ a b Iii, David T. Foster. "What happened to Tammy Faye Bakker after the PTL scandal?". charlotteobserver. Retrieved July 8, 2019.