Tammy Fae Bakker Messner Passes On
by: Rev. DanFrom Reuters:
Tammy Faye Bakker Messner, a former televangelist who helped lead a huge television ministry before its collapse in a sex and corruption scandal, has died, her Web site reported on Saturday.
Messner died on Friday at age 65 after a long battle with cancer. CNN’s Larry King, who interviewed Messner on his “Larry King Live” talk show on Thursday night, said her family had asked him to make the delayed announcement of her death.
“She died peacefully,” King said on CNN’s Web site.
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On May 8, Messner, who recently moved to the Kansas City area from Charlotte, North Carolina, posted a message on her Web site, www.tammyfaye.com, saying she had withered to 65 pounds and that doctors had decided to stop treatment, leaving her fate “up to God and my faith.”
Messner was diagnosed with colon cancer in 1996 and announced in 2004 it had spread to her lungs.
In a “final note” posted on her Web site on Monday, Messner said: “I have times when I feel good and times when I feel really bad. But, I have learned one thing about feelings. They have nothing to do with faith in God!!
As different as Tammy Fae was, she always seemed legit. to me.
May she rest in peace. :(
I remember seeing her on the “Jim J & Tammy Fae” talk show with Jim J. Bullock (from Too Close For Comfort fame) and she was always very genuine and weird and a-ok. Then she was on the Surreal Life with Vanilla Ice & Ron Jeremy and she was one of the coolest people there. Nonjudgmental in a room with porn stars and violent ex-white-rappers. And these guys loved her for that genuine attitude. I don’t know if I could do any better.
Yeah, and she was a big icon in the gay community too… and how could we ever forget how awesome she was as Mimi’s mom on the Drew Carey show! Cleveland rocks!
I was very sorry to notice that there was no public memorial service for Tammy Fae on Christian television. Why? haven’t we forgiven her ex husband? So why has the Christian community not forgiven Tammy Fae?