Mar 7
Tamara Faye Messner (formerly Bakker) was an American evangelist. She co-founded the televangelist program PTL Club with her 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.