Two days after her father’s death from COVID-19, Stephanie Price Buchanan, the youngest daughter of the late Frederick K.C. Price, remembered the beloved televangelist in a touching tribute in which she called him her “first Valentine.”
“On this Valentine’s Day my heart is heavy…I never thought he would go to the hospital and never come home. I was waiting, praying, sending him emails to read when he got home. I planned on reading him all his birthday cards. I even planned his 90th birthday party while waiting for him to get better,” Buchanan wrote in a post on Facebook.
“I know he’s in glory, I have peace knowing that. But my heart…He will always be the absolute best. I will always honor him….He was my hero, my first Valentine….my heart broke Friday night and a piece of it went with him. I love you forever daddy. Your baby girl,” she noted of the Crenshaw Christian Center founder.
Price’s family announced that he died from COVID-19 at age 89 on Friday after a weekslong battle with the virus that has killed nearly half a million people in the U.S. since a global pandemic was declared last March.
Buchanan shared fond memories of her father, whom she called “the epitome of a great man” and who was a mentor to many.
“He was the ultimate teacher and not only with faith but with taking out the trash, not running out of gas in your car and coming home at curfew. There was always a lesson to be learned. If he showed you how to use the new TV remote you better listen to his full commentary on how to use it and where to put it back on the TV or you would get an earful about how you didn’t,” she recalled of her father, whom she described as organized, disciplined and honest.
“He was not two faced and as he often said ‘what you see, is what you get.’ He loved his wife and us kids and he protected and took great care of us. He was brilliant, a true man of God, always sharply dressed and he loved God’s people and wanted the absolute best for them,” she said.
By Leonardo Blair, Christian Post Reporter