Oprah Winfrey’s father Vernon dies aged 89

&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpcnt">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpa">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"wpa-about">Advertisements<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"u top&lowbar;amp">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<amp-ad width&equals;"300" height&equals;"265"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; type&equals;"pubmine"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-siteid&equals;"111265417"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-section&equals;"2">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;amp-ad>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div><p>US TV star Oprah Winfrey’s father&comma; Vernon Winfrey&comma; has died at the age of 89&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The presenter confirmed the news in an Instagram post that her father died in Nashville&comma; Tennessee&comma; on Friday&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Yesterday with family surrounding his bedside I had the sacred honour of witnessing the man responsible for my life&comma; take his last breath&comma;” the media mogul wrote&period; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;We could feel peace enter the room at his passing&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Details about funeral plans were not immediately released&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Earlier this week&comma; Winfrey surprised her father by throwing him a surprise barbecue in Nashville on the July 4&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The event was called &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Vernon Winfrey Appreciation Day”&comma; which included a barber chair to honour his long career as a barber and owning his own shop in Nashville for nearly 50 years&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Vernon served as a member of Nashville’s Metro City Council for 16 years and was a trustee for the Tennessee State University&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><&excl;--Ads1--><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Winfrey spent her early childhood at her father’s hometown of Kosciusko&comma; Mississippi&comma; and in Milwaukee with her mother&comma; Vernita Lee&comma; who died in 2018&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>However&comma; she also lived with her father in Nashville&comma; between the ages of seven and nine and during her teens&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;If I hadn’t been sent to my father &lpar;when I was 14&rpar;&comma; I would have gone in another direction&comma;” Winfrey told the Washington Post in 1986&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;I could have made a good criminal&period; I would have used these same instincts differently&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div style&equals;"padding-bottom&colon;15px&semi;" class&equals;"wordads-tag" data-slot-type&equals;"belowpost">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div id&equals;"atatags-dynamic-belowpost-68ed2e516dccc">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<script type&equals;"text&sol;javascript">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;window&period;getAdSnippetCallback &equals; function &lpar;&rpar; &lbrace;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;if &lpar; false &equals;&equals;&equals; &lpar; window&period;isWatlV1 &quest;&quest; false &rpar; &rpar; &lbrace;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&sol;&sol; Use Aditude scripts&period;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;window&period;tudeMappings &equals; window&period;tudeMappings &vert;&vert; &lbrack;&rsqb;&semi;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;window&period;tudeMappings&period;push&lpar; &lbrace;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;divId&colon; 'atatags-dynamic-belowpost-68ed2e516dccc'&comma;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;format&colon; 'belowpost'&comma;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&rcub; &rpar;&semi;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&rcub;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&rcub;&NewLine;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;if &lpar; document&period;readyState &equals;&equals;&equals; 'loading' &rpar; &lbrace;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;document&period;addEventListener&lpar; 'DOMContentLoaded'&comma; window&period;getAdSnippetCallback &rpar;&semi;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&rcub; else &lbrace;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;window&period;getAdSnippetCallback&lpar;&rpar;&semi;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&rcub;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;script>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>


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