Rex Humbard Dies at 88
Posted by Terry White on September 22, 2007
Television preacher Rex Humbard died Friday at age 88.
His Sunday services were televised by 1953. He began with a renovated theater and eventually built the $4 million domed, 5,000-seat nondenominational Cathedral of Tomorrow in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio. The cathedral included velvet drapes, a hydraulic stage and a cross covered with thousands of red, white and blue light bulbs.
His ministry eventually expanded to include a Mackinac Island, Michigan, campus used for religious education and a 23-story Akron office tower.
The broadcast, also called “Cathedral of Tomorrow,” developed into a mixture of preaching and music, with Humbard’s wife, Maude Aimee, an accomplished gospel singer, and the Cathedral Quartet as regular performers.
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