Charles Hunter (1) (1920–2010)

[excerpted from Find a Grave website]
Born July 23, 1920, Charles Hunter grew up in Abilene, Texas, where his parents operated a peach orchard. He accepted Christ as a teenager and eventually became an accountant. After a stint in the Air Force during World War II, he opened an accounting firm in Houston. Widowed in May 1969 after 27 years of marriage, Hunter married an itinerant evangelist named Frances Gardner on Jan. 1, 1970, and the two began to travel in ministry together. In 1985, the Hunters began leading large-scale crusades known as "healing explosions," which hundreds of thousands of people attended around the world. In 1990, they started the World Evangelistic Census, a campaign that mobilized people to evangelize door-to-door. Even when Charles Hunter was well into his 80s and Frances in her 90s, the couple held seminars to train people in healing ministry. As recently as 2007, the couple hosted a Worldwide Day of Healing for All Nations that was broadcast worldwide on television and the Internet. Hunter's daughter, Joan Hunter Murrell, said her father had essentially been bed-ridden for several months and suffered from a weakened heart. She said he died peacefully after lying down for bed.