Oprah Winfrey’s Father Dies Days After Family Celebration

Oprah Winfrey’s Father Dies Days After Family Celebration
Oprah Winfrey and her father Vernon Winfrey (L) arrive at the opening of Charlie's War at the Nashville Film Festival at the Green Hills Regal Cinema in Nashville, Tenn., on May 2, 2003. Adriane Jaeckle/Getty Images
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Oprah Winfrey’s father, Vernon, has died, the daytime talk show host said on her Instagram account on Saturday, just days after she said the family was able to honor her father.

“Yesterday with family surrounding his bedside, I had the sacred honor 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.