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The other two Roberts children are son Richard, an evangelist and former president of Oral Roberts University, and daughter Roberta Potts, an attorney. Roberts died of complications from pneumonia on December 15, 2009, [72] [73] at the age of 91. He had been "semi-retired" and living in Newport Beach, California. [74]
Richard Lee Roberts was born on November 12, 1948, in Tulsa, Oklahoma, the son of evangelist Granville Oral Roberts and schoolteacher Evelyn Lutman Roberts. The third of four children, Richard had an older sister, Rebecca Ann, who was killed, along with her husband, Marshall Nash, in a plane crash in 1977; and an older brother, Ronald David, who committed suicide in 1982, six months after ...
Tina Turner is mourning the loss of her son Ronnie, who died on Dec. 8.
Ronnie Roberts, the son of Oral Roberts, came out as gay to the Rev. Troy Perry, founder of the Metropolitan Community Church, in the early 1980s. Six months later, Ronnie Roberts committed suicide. [65] As of December 7, 2021, an online petition to "Tell Oral Roberts University: Change your anti-LGBTQ honor code" had gained over 10,000 signatures.
The cause of death has been revealed for Ronnie Turner, a musician and the youngest son of music legend Tina Turner, who died outside his Los Angeles home last week. Turner, 62, died from ...
Ronnie's brother Craig, Tina Turner's eldest son, with saxophonist Raymond Hill, died in 2018 of suicide. Ike Turner died in 2007 of a cocaine overdose . Alline Bullock, Tina Turner's older sister ...
Ike died in 2007 and Aline, Ronnie's aunt and Tina's sister, died in 2010. Tina, 83, also posted a tribute to her late son on Friday. "Ronnie, you left the world far too early.
Carlton D'Metrius Pearson was born on March 19, 1953, in San Diego, California. [3] [4] He attended Oral Roberts University in Tulsa, where he was mentored by Oral Roberts, and sang with the World Action Singers, later becoming an associate evangelist with the Oral Roberts Evangelistic Association.