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Tammy Faye (Baker) Messner dies

Posted: July 23rd, 2007, 2:36 am
by PAmedic
sad story- apologies if its already been posted.

hopefully she is now in a better place. those of us around during the PTL scandal shudder remembering those very ugly times

http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/07/21/tammy.faye/index.html
Tammy Faye Messner dies

(CNN) -- Tammy Faye Messner, the former televangelist and Christian singer who battled drug addiction and later inoperable cancer, died Friday morning, CNN's Larry King said Saturday night. He said the family had asked him to make the delayed announcement.

Messner was a guest on "Larry King Live" on Thursday. She told him she couldn't swallow food, and weighed only 65 pounds.

King said the family postponed the death announcement for a day so family members could gather. Messner was cremated and interred in a remote part of Kansas at the Kansas-Oklahoma state line, King said.
Asked by King what she would most like to be remembered for, Messner replied, "well, my eyelashes." Messner wore heavy makeup -- her lip liner, eyeliner and eyebrows were tattooed on.

Posted: July 23rd, 2007, 9:01 am
by bigsmooth
i saw her interview with larry king. she was emaciated. she showed a lot of courage to do that interview. RIP.

Posted: July 23rd, 2007, 11:19 pm
by 4everfsu
Just think Jerry Falwell and Tammy Faye having conversations in Heaven