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<\/p>\nVernon Winfrey, the father of Oprah Winfrey, passed away earlier this month. Age-wise, he was 89. <\/p>\n
She released the eulogy she gave at her father’s funeral some weeks after his passing. She discussed a wide range of topics in it, including her father’s influence on her life and their last interactions.<\/p>\n
Vernon Winfrey Appreciation Day was celebrated by Oprah four days prior to the 89-year-passing old’s in Nashville, Tennessee.<\/p>\n
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Oprah confirmed her father’s passing on social media, writing, ‘Yesterday with family surrounding his bedside I had the holy honor of witnessing the man responsible for my life, draw his final breath.’ At his passing,’ we could feel calm come into the room.’<\/p>\n
Oprah acknowledged in 1986 that her father had aided her in navigating life.<\/p>\n
Oprah said to the Washington Post in 1986 that she would have taken a different path if she hadn’t been transferred to live with her father when she was 14 years old.<\/p>\n
I could have been a successful crook. These same impulses would have been applied differently by me.<\/p>\n
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Oprah described how her father told medical professionals that he wanted to actively treat his illness because he wanted to live to reach 90 years old.<\/p>\n
She said, ‘Tommy [Tommy Walker, Vernon’s son] and I didn’t want it, but he persisted.’ And that initial chemotherapy treatment was a knockout blow. <\/p>\n
You just got hit by Muhammad Ali, Tommy said to him in the hospital. You’re in serious trouble, bro. <\/p>\n
Trying to get back to standing up. You’re too weak to take another blow. Tommy’s comparison of boxing persuaded him to unleash the chemo.<\/p>\n
In one of his last moments, she recalls her father asking Oprah whether she believed he would live to be 90 years old. <\/p>\n
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‘Dad, I don’t think God’s functioning from a number in your head,’ I remarked. Look at all the individuals who failed to reach the ages of 17, 44, 72, and 28. <\/p>\n
They have target demographics in mind. But the service is what matters, not the number. Have you fulfilled your mission?<\/p>\n
What you came here to do, have you completed? I think you leave when you’re done. Making a number is not the point.<\/p>\n
He softly remarked, ‘Well, that’s another way to look at it,’ as I could tell he was taking that in.<\/p>\n
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She stated in the eulogy that was published on her website that ‘death is a tremendous teacher.’ ‘Even just watching life ebb from my father’s body as I sat in the room taught me a lot.<\/p>\n