Minnie Belle Swaggart: How Did Jimmy Swaggarts Mother Die?

Minnie Belle Swaggart is the mother of American Pentecostal televangelist Jimmy Swaggart. Minnie’s son Jimmy Swaggart established the Jimmy Swaggart Ministries, based at the Family Worship Center in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and the Sonlife Broadcasting Network (SBN). He is the senior pastor of the Family Worship Center in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

Minnie Belle Swaggart: Bio Summary

Who Was Jimmy Swaggart’s Mother, Minnie Belle Swaggart?

Minnie Belle Swaggart was born on 15 February 1917, in Louisiana, United States. She is also known as Minnie Bell Herron. John William “Will” Herron and Theresa Lee “Trissie” Forman Herron were her parents. She was the sister of George Eugene Herron Sr, Fannie Sue Herron Glasscock, Viola Herron Beatty, Stella Josephine Herron Calhoun, Mary Ethel “Mamie” Herron Lewis, and Henry Clay Herron.

Minnie is said to have been the baby of the Herron family. Information on her early life and education is not available. She was a devoted housewife and a minister. She sang in the choir. She was a member of the Assemblies of God. She married Willie Leon Swaggart in 1934. She and her husband were gifted musicians who earned a few dollars by playing the fiddle and guitar at dances during the Great Depression.

Minnie’s husband Willie was reportedly a fiddle player who worked for a bootlegger before being drawn with Minnie to the Assemblies of God. He was a Pentecostal preacher. Minnie and Willie had three children, Jimmy Lee Swaggart, Jeannette Swaggart Ensminger, and Donnie Swaggart. The family moved to Texas, and soon Minnie and her young son Donnie contracted pneumonia.

Donnie died on 18 March 1940, when he was just 3 months old, and was given a pauper’s burial. Minnie raised her children with love and care. She was a devoted wife and mother. She had a huge and positive impact on her children’s lives. Her son Jimmy Swaggart had a “dramatic salvation experience at the age of eight” and “felt the call of God on his life. He spent hours reading the Bible, praying, and, after a certain revival meeting, decided to ask God for the talent to play the piano”, per his website.

Jimmy Swaggart is an evangelist, pastor, singer, pianist, and author who has preached the gospel of Jesus Christ on television longer than any other American evangelist in history. He is the founder of the Jimmy Swaggart Ministries and is the senior pastor of the Family Worship Center in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. He launched the SonLife Broadcasting Network (SBN), owned and operated by Jimmy Swaggart Ministries.

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What Happened To Minnie Belle Swaggart’s Son?

Minnie Belle Swaggart’s son, Jimmy Swaggart was accused of patronizing a prostitute in the 1980s. He was suspended and ultimately defrocked by the Assemblies of God. Later, he was implicated in another scandal involving prostitution. His sex scandals received national media attention. He publicly delivered a speech, speaking tearfully to his family, congregation, and TV audience. He ended his speech with a prayer:

“Everything that I will attempt to say to you this morning will be from my heart. I will not speak from a prepared script. Knowing the consequences of what I will say and that much of it will be taken around the world, as it should be, I am positive that all that I want to say I will not be able to articulate as I would desire. But I would pray that you will somehow feel the anguish, the pain, and the love of my heart.”

“I have always — every single time that I have stood before a congregation and a television camera — I have met and faced the issues head-on. I have never sidestepped or skirted unpleasantries. I have tried to be like a man and to preach this gospel exactly as I have seen it without fear or reservation or compromise. I can do no less this morning.”

“I do not plan in any way to whitewash my sin. I do not call it a mistake, a mendacity; I call it sin. I would much rather, if possible — and in my estimation it would not be possible — to make it worse than less than it actually is. I have no one but myself to blame. I do not lay the fault or the blame of the charge at anyone else’s feet. For no one is to blame but Jimmy Swaggart. I take the responsibility. I take the blame. I take the fault.”

Minnie Belle Swaggart’s son, Jimmy Swaggart apologized to his wife Frances Swaggart, his son Donnie Swaggart and daughter-in-law Debbie Swaggart, the Assemblies of God, the Family Worship Center, his fellow television ministers and evangelists, the public and God. “my Lord and my Savior, my Redeemer, the One whom I have served and I love and I worship. I bow at His feet, who has saved me and washed me and cleansed me.”

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“I have sinned against You, my Lord. And I would ask that Your precious blood would wash and cleanse every stain, until it is in the seas of God’s forgetfulness, never to be remembered against me anymore.”

How Did Jimmy Swaggart’s Mother Die?

Minnie Belle Swaggart died after surgery. She was in Mississippi having surgery when she died from a reaction to the anesthesia. She died on 9 June 1960, at age 43, in Mississippi, USA. She was buried at Herron Family Cemetery, Clayton, Concordia Parish, Louisiana, USA. Her husband Willie Leon Swaggart died on 25 April 1998, at age 83, in Clayton, Concordia Parish, Louisiana, USA. He was also buried at Herron Family Cemetery, Clayton, Concordia Parish, Louisiana, USA.

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