Norman Vincent Peale

==Later life==
President [[Ronald Reagan]] awarded Peale the [[Presidential Medal of Freedom]] (the highest civilian honor in the United States) on March 26, 1984, for his contributions to the field of theology.<ref>{{cite book|page=[https://archive.org/details/intribute00tedt/page/141 141]|last=Tobias|first=Ted|title=In tribute: eulogies of famous people|isbn=0-8108-3537-1|url=https://archive.org/details/intribute00tedt/page/141|year=1999|publisher=Scarecrow Press }}</ref>{{verification needed|date = January 2022}}

Peale died at age 95 following a stroke, on December 24, 1993, in [[Pawling (village), New York|Pawling, New York]]<ref name=":0" /><ref name = BritConciseEncycl_NVP/> He was survived by his wife of 63 years, [[Ruth Stafford Peale]], who had influenced him with regard to the publication of ''The Power'' in 1952, and with regard to his early interactions with psychiatry, and with whom he had founded ''[[Guideposts]]'' (of which she was chairman emeritus, and which had an annual readership of 8 million in 2008); she died on February 6, 2008, at the age of 101.<ref name = RuthObit>{{cite news |author=<!--Not stated--> | date = February 8, 2008 | title = Obituary: Pastor's Wife Co-Founded Guideposts | newspaper = [[LATimes.com]] | url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-feb-08-me-peale8-story.html | access-date = January 26, 2022 }}</ref>