Tammy Faye Messner, 65
Posted: Saturday, July 21st, 2007 7:08 pm
(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.
She was 65.
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. …
“She died peacefully. Anyone who saw her on our show this week knew that she didn’t have long.”
King asked her Thursday if she were “a little scared.”
She responded, “A little bit,” adding that she mainly worried about her family. … Read full obituary
