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ICYMI: Oprah Winfrey’s father, Vernon Winfrey, has passed on, the doyenne of daytime talk posted on her Instagram account on Saturday, just days after she said the family was able to honour her father.

Oprah Winfrey’s father, Vernon Winfrey, has passed on, the doyenne of daytime talk posted on her Instagram account on Saturday, just days after she said the family was able to honour her father.

“Yesterday with family surrounding his bedside, I had the sacred honour of witnessing the man responsible for my life, take his last breath. We could feel peace enter the room at his passing,” Winfrey wrote in the post.It is with a heavy heart that we can confirm that Vernon Winfrey, Oprah’s father, passed away yesterday at the age of 89. Read Oprah’s beautiful tribute to her dad 🕊

 

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