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Tammy Faye Messner
Singer + Evangelist + Entrepreneur
Female
Born
Mar 7, 1942
Hometown
United States
Died
Jul 20, 2007
Death Place
Loch Lloyd, Missouri
Other Names
Tamara Faye LaValley
Tamara Faye LaValley Bakker Messner was an American Christian singer, evangelist, entrepreneur, author, talk show host, and television personality. She was married to televangelist, and later convicted felon, Jim Bakker (1961–92). She co-hosted with him… Read More
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CHILDHOOD
1942
Birth
Born on March 7, 1942.
1948
6 Years Old
In 1948, when she was six, her mother married Fred Grover, who worked in paper mills.
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TEENAGE
In 1956, she started spending summers at Bible camp and was voted "Queen".
Before she graduated in 1960, her mother suggested that Tammy Faye would become a minister.
1961
19 Years Old
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She was married from 1961 to 1992 to televangelist, and later convicted felon, Jim Bakker.
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FORTIES
1988
46 Years Old
The Charlotte Observer ran exposes of PTL's finances and management practices. PTL went bankrupt after being taken over by controversial Lynchburg, Virginia-based Baptist televangelist Jerry Falwell, who offered to step in following the scandals in 1988.
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FIFTIES
1992
50 Years Old
In 1992, while Bakker was still in prison she filed for divorce, saying in a letter to the New Covenant Church in Orlando, Florida:
1993
51 Years Old
On October 3, 1993, she married Roe Messner in Rancho Mirage, California, after Messner divorced his own wife.
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In 1996 she wrote her autobiography, Tammy: Telling It My Way (ISBN 0679445153), and she co-hosted a TV talk show titled The Jim J. and Tammy Faye Show with Jim J. Bullock.
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LATE ADULTHOOD
2003
61 Years Old
On September 11, 2003, she published a new autobiography, I Will Survive... and You Will, Too! (ISBN 1585422428), in which she described her battles with cancer and her life with Messner.
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In early 2004, she appeared on the second season of the VH1 reality television series The Surreal Life.
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2005
63 Years Old
It was on King's program again that she announced, on July 20, 2005, that her cancer had returned.
On March 13, 2006, she appeared again on Larry King Live and stated that she was continuing to suffer from lung cancer, which had reached stage 4, and that she was continuing to receive treatment for it.
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On May 8, 2007, she issued a statement on her website saying that chemo therepy had stopped, but urging her fans to continue to pray for her.
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