Healing evangelist and author Charles Edward Hunter died June 21 in his Houston-area home after being in frail health for several years. He was 89.

Hunter and his wife, Frances, spent nearly 40 years leading healing crusades worldwide before her death last July at age 93. Known as the Happy Hunters, the couple wrote numerous books on divine healing, including the best-seller How to Heal the Sick (Whitaker House), and they produced teaching DVDs to train others in healing ministry. Hunter also wrote Handbook for Healing and Angel Book (both Whitaker House).

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. Murrell saw him the previous day to wish him a happy Father's Day. "I told him he was the best father ever, which was true," she said. "Not only to me but to everybody he ever met."

Even when 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.

Murrell--Frances' daughter, whom Hunter legally adopted in 1970--has been leading the Hunters' Houston-area ministry since her mother's death last July. Hunter is survived by Frances' two children; nine grandchildren; and 14 great-grandchildren.

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