DIED. Ruth Carter Stapleton, 54, evangelist and practitioner of "inner healing," who was instrumental in the 1966 spiritual rebirth of her elder brother, former President Jimmy Carter; of pancreatic cancer; in Fayetteville, N.C. A self-described "catalyst for God," the ebullient, unordained born-again Christian minister suffered a severe depression in the late '50s after the births of her four children and a car accident. Crediting her recovery to God, she mixed prayer with psychology to heal troubled or afflicted believers. After she learned of her terminal disease five months ago, Stapleton refused conventional...
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