deaths
July 20, 2007
Tammy Faye Messner, American Christian evangelist and talk show host (born 1942)
Tammy Faye Messner
Tamara Faye Messner was an American evangelist. She co-founded the televangelist program The PTL Club with her then-husband Jim Bakker in 1974. They had hosted their own puppet-show series for local programming in the early 1960s; Messner also had a career as a recording artist. In 1978, she and Bakker built Heritage USA, a Christian theme park.