Tammy Faye Bakker was born on April 3, 1941 in Ruch, North Carolina. She is the daughter of Jay Voorhes and the former Lucille Faye Hage. Tammy married her first husband, Mike Lane, in 1960. They had four children: Tim, Karen, Marlene, and Jay
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Tammy met Jim Bakker in 1964. The two were married in 1968 and had two children together: Jessica and Joshua. Tammy divorced Bakker in 1980 after he was convicted of fraud related to PTL ministry funds.
She remarried in 1982 to evangelist Jimmy Swaggart. After Swaggart resigned his ministry position over a scandal involving prostitution, Tammy remarried Bakker in 1984. They had one child together, Joshua.
Tammy died on August 4, 2008 at the age of sixty-one from cancer; she was survived by her second husband Jim Bakker; her son Tim; her daughter Marlene; and three grandchildren Joshua Swaggart (born 1983), Jessica Swaggart (born 1986), and Leah Swaggart (born 1997).