Kathryn Kuhlman

==Death==
In July 1975, a doctor diagnosed Kuhlman with a minor [[Heart failure|heart flare-up]]; in November, she had a relapse.<ref name="ObitPittsburgh">{{cite news | url=http://www.newspaperarchive.com/newspapers1/na0034/6776963/33852475_clean.html | archive-url=https://archive.today/20130104021820/http://www.newspaperarchive.com/newspapers1/na0034/6776963/33852475_clean.html | url-status=dead | archive-date=January 4, 2013 | title=Kathryn Kuhlman Is Dead  | publisher=[[Pittsburgh Post-Gazette]] |date=February 21, 1976 | access-date =2007-11-12}}</ref> As a result, Kuhlman underwent open-heart surgery in [[Tulsa, Oklahoma]], during which she died on February 20, 1976.<ref name="obitNY" /> It was reported in her biography that at the time of her passing in the hospital, a bright light was witnessed hovering over her lifeless body.{{sfn|Buckingham|1976}}

Kathryn Kuhlman was buried in the [[Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Glendale)|Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery]] in [[Glendale, California]]. A plaque in her honor is in the main city park in Concordia, Missouri, a town in central Missouri on Interstate Highway 70.{{Citation needed|date=November 2022}}

After she died, her [[Will (law)|will]] led to controversy.<ref name="Bequests1976">{{cite news | url=http://www.newspaperarchive.com/newspapers1/na0023/6792967/46427475_clean.html | title=Kuhlman Bequests Listed | publisher=[[Independent Press-Telegram]] |date=April 17, 1976
 | access-date =2007-11-12}} {{Dead link|date=March 2018}}</ref> She left $267,500, the bulk of her estate, to three members of her family and twenty of her employees. Smaller bequests were given to 19 other employees. According to the ''[[Independent Press-Telegram]]'', her employees were disappointed when they learned that "she did not leave most of her estate to the foundation as she had done under a previous 1974 will."

The Kathryn Kuhlman Foundation had continued, but due to lack of funding, it terminated its nationwide radio broadcast in 1982. Ultimately, the foundation closed its doors in April 2016.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.charismanews.com/us/55287-kathryn-kuhlman-s-foundation-shutters-doors-40-years-after-her-death |title = Kathryn Kuhlman's Foundation Shutters Doors 40 Years After Her Death - Charisma News}}</ref>