Tammy Faye Bakker Death
Tammy passed away on July 20, 2007 at the age of 65 in Kansas City, Missouri. Tammy's cause of death was lung cancer.
When did Tammy Faye Bakker die?
July 20, 2007How did Tammy Faye Bakker die? What was the cause of death?
Lung cancerHow old was Tammy Faye Bakker when died?
65Where did Tammy Faye Bakker die? What was the location of death?
Kansas City, Missouri
Tammy Faye Bakker Birthday and Date of Death
Tammy Faye Bakker was born on March 4, 1942 and died on July 20, 2007. Tammy was 65 years old at the time of death.
Birthday: March 4, 1942
Date of Death: July 20, 2007
Age at Death: 65
Tammy Faye Bakker - Biography
Tamara Faye LaValley Bakker Messner (March 7, 1942 – July 20, 2007) was an American Christian singer, evangelist, entrepreneur, author, talk show host, and television personality. She was married from 1961 to 1992 to televangelist, and later convicted felon, Jim Bakker. She co-hosted with him on The PTL Club (1976–1987). She was a participant in the 2004 season of the reality show The Surreal Life.
In 1960, she met Jim Bakker while they were students at North Central Bible College in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Tammy Faye worked in a boutique for a time while Jim found work in a restaurant inside a department store in Minneapolis. They were married on April 1, 1961. The following year, they moved to South Carolina, where they began their ministry together, initially traveling around the United States; Bakker preached, while Messner sang songs and played the accordion. In 1970, she gave birth to her daughter, Tammy Sue "Sissy" Bakker, and in 1975, gave birth to a son, Jamie Charles Bakker.
Over the course of her career, Messner was noted for her eccentric and glamorous persona, as well as for her moral views that diverged from those of many mainstream Evangelists, particularly her acceptance of the LGBT community and reaching out to HIV/AIDS patients at the height of the AIDS epidemic.
On March 19, 2004, Tammy Faye made an appearance on Larry King Live and announced that she had inoperable lung cancer and would soon begin chemotherapy. She continued receiving chemotherapy throughout mid-2004. On November 30, 2004, also on Larry King Live, she announced that she was cancer free once again. She described the details of her chemotherapy and continued to appear regularly on King's show. A 2004 television documentary of her struggle with cancer was produced in 2004. It was on King's program again that she announced, on July 20, 2005, that her cancer had returned.
On July 20, 2007, Messner died after 11 years with cancer. She was 65 years old. What had started as colon cancer had spread to her lungs. She died in her home, said her publicist, Joe Spotts.
