Question: When did the founder of the Westboro Baptist Church die?

Context articles: Citadel Square Baptist Church
Megan Phelps-Roper
South Memphis, Memphis, Tennessee
Westboro Baptist Church
United Baptist Church (Newport, Rhode Island)
Shiloh Baptist Church (Old Site)
First Baptist Church (Charleston, South Carolina)
Stewart Cleveland Cureton
The Most Hated Family in America
Fred Phelps

Citadel Square Baptist Church was the fourth Baptist church built in Charleston, South Carolina.
 The church began as an outgrowth of the First Baptist Church when, in 1854, a dozen members sought permission to establish a new church for the upper peninsula.
 The new church was to have been known as the Fourth Baptist Church but, when an existing Baptist church closed, leaving only three Baptist churches, the name was changed to Citadel Square Baptist Church.
 The name refers to the church's location on upper Meeting St., immediately across from Marion Square,which at the time was the location of the Citadel.
Megan Phelps-Roper (born January 31, 1986) is a social media activist, lobbying to overcome divisions and hatred between religious and political divides.
 Formerly a prominent member of the Westboro Baptist Church (WBC), she left the church with her sister Grace in November 2012.
 Her mother is Shirley Phelps-Roper, whose father was the church's founder Fred Phelps.
South Memphis, one of the oldest portions of Memphis, Tennessee, is a community stretching from Midtown and Downtown to the Mississippi state line.
 In its early days, it was primarily an agrarian community.
 South Memphis has many well-known neighborhoods including Whitehaven, Lauderdale Sub, Longview, Riverside, Lakeview Gardens, Prospect Park, Dukestown, Gaslight Square, Wilbert Heights, Alcy, Mallory Heights, Dixie Heights, Warren Park, Barton Heights, Elliston Heights, Handy Holiday, Chickasaw Village, Pine Hill, Indian Hills, Bunker Hill, Westwood, Boxtown, West Junction, Walker Homes, Coro Lake, Nehemiah, and French Fort.
 Many of these neighborhoods are considered home to many famous Hip Hop/R&B singers and rappers from old to new.
 Many locations in South Memphis are also considered a hotbed for crime and violence due to the high amount of gang influence and poverty level of the area.
 But South Memphis is known for its plentiful houses of worship including Mt Vernon Baptist Church Westwood, St Andrew AME Church, Washington Chapel CME Church, East Trigg Baptist Church, White's Chapel AME Church, Union Valley Baptist Church, Enon Springs Baptist Church, Warner Temple AME Zion Church, Unity Baptist Church, Ford's Chapel AME Zion Church, St. Augustine Catholic Church, and Monumental Baptist Church just naming a few.
Westboro Baptist Church (WBC) is a Baptist church which is known for allegations of hate speech, especially against LGBT people (homophobia), Catholics (anti-Catholicism), Orthodox Christians (anti-Orthodoxy), Muslims (Islamophobia), Jews (antisemitism), American soldiers and politicians.
 The church is widely known as a hate group and is monitored as such by the Anti-Defamation League and the Southern Poverty Law Center.
 The church has been involved in actions against gay people since at least 1991, when it sought a crackdown on homosexual activity at Gage Park six blocks northwest of the church.
 In addition to conducting anti-gay protests at military funerals, the organization pickets celebrity funerals and public events.
 Protests have also been held against Jews and Catholics, and some protests have included WBC members stomping on the American flag or flying the flag upside down on a flagpole.
 The church also has made statements such as, "thank God for dead soldiers," "God blew up the troops," "thank God for 9/11," and "God hates America."
The United Baptist Church, John Clarke Memorial (previously known as the First Baptist Church in Newport, Second Baptist Church in Newport and the Second Baptist Church in America) is a historic Baptist church in Newport, Rhode Island, USA that was founded in 1638-1644.
 It is one of the two oldest Baptist congregations in the United States and is currently affiliated with the American Baptist Church.
 The current meeting house of the church was constructed in 1846.
The Shiloh Baptist Church (Old Site) is a historic Baptist church at 810 Sophia Street in downtown Fredericksburg, Virginia.
 The church is a two story brick building with predominantly Classical Revival styling, modeled to some degree after the Presbyterian Church of Fredericksburg, with later alterations.
 The church was built in 1890 for a predominantly African-American congregation, whose origins lie in a mixed-race Baptist congregation founded in 1804.
 That congregation split about 1815, worshipping in a building at this site, and became known as the Shiloh Baptist Church with the construction of a new building here in the 1830s.
 In 1849 the large congregation again divided, with most of its white members leaving to form the Fredericksburg Baptist Church at Princess Anne and Amelia Streets.
 Services were discontinued during the American Civil War, and the existing building was damaged, in part due to abuse caused during military occupation of the city.
 It collapsed in 1886, and the present building was constructed in 1890 as its replacement.
 However, due to a schism in the congregation, two separate groups claimed the name "Shiloh Baptist", which was resolved by giving the one at this location the name "Shiloh Baptist Church (Old Site)", which it still retains.
First Baptist Church is a historic Baptist church in Charleston, South Carolina.
 The congregation was founded in 1682 under the leadership of William Screven.
 It is one of the oldest Baptist congregations in the American South.
 The church congregation was originally organized in Kittery, Maine (then part of Massachusetts) under the guidance of the First Baptist Church of Boston.
 In 1696 twenty-six congregants followed Pastor Screven and moved to Charleston after being pressured by the New England Congregationalist authorities.
 The relocated congregation became the First Baptist Church of Charleston.
 Pastor Screven recommended that future any future pastor be "orthodox in faith, and of blameless life, and does own the confession of faith put forth by our brethren in London in 1689" declaring the church to be firmly Calvinist (Reformed Baptist).
 First Baptist Church is currently affiliated with the Southern Baptist denomination.
 The current Greek Revival sanctuary was designed by Robert Mills and built in 1820.
Stewart Cleveland Cureton Born March 24, 1930,To Santee Argo Cureton and Martha Arrye Henderson Cureton.
 He is the sixth child of seven.
 He was educated in the Greenville County school system, graduating from Sterling High School in 1949.
 Having already accepted God's call to preach at the age of seventeen, he continued his education at Benedict College, Columbia, South Carolina, earning a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1953.
 On December 27, 1954, Dr. Cureton married the love of his life, Claudette Hazel Chapman Cureton.
 From their union four children were born, Ruthye, Stewart Jr., Santee Charles, and Samuel.
 Samuel followed his father into the ministry.
 Dr. Cureton modeled his belief that an effective leader needs both a "baptized heart and a baptized brain", and through the years continued his education by studying at numerous other colleges and universities throughout North Carolina and South Carolina.
 He was awarded the Doctor of Divinity degree from Morris College, Sumter, South Carolina and Benedict College, Columbia, South Carolina.
 He began his pastorate in 1953 as pastor of Old Pilgrim Baptist Church, Greenville, South Carolina: New Galilee Baptist Church, Walhala, South CArolina; Rock Hill Baptist Church #2, Greenville, South Carolina; Griffin Ebenezer Baptist Church, Pickens, South Carolina and Gethsemane Baptist Church, Chester, South Carolina.
 In 1965 he was called to pastor Reedy Fork Baptist Church and Reedy River Baptist Church which was his home church.
 In 1978 he became the full-time pastor of Reedy River Baptist Church.
 Under his leadership the membership and influence of Reedy River BAptist Church grew exponentially.
 He led the membership to build two new sanctuaries and a Family Life Center that became the model for many other churches in the Greenville area.
 Dr. Cureton was committed to education, understanding that it is only through education that people can reach their full potential.
 Dr. Cureton rose from humble beginnings to become a local, state and national leader.
 Among his many accomplishments: served as Moderator of the Reedy River Baptist Association; served as President of the Baptist Educational & Missionary Convention of South CArolina (1986-1991); served as Second Vice President, Vice President-at-Large and President of the NAtional Baptist Convention,USA,Inc; appointed as a Commission Member of the United States Presidential Scholars Program by President Bill Clinton (1991-2000); awarded the Order of the Palmetto Award; served as member of the Benedict College Board of Trustees; served as member of the Morris College Board of Trustees.
 – Steward Cleveland Cureton departed this earthly life and went to his heavenly home on December 30, 2008), also known as S.C. Cureton, was President of the National Baptist Convention from March 1999 to September 1999.
 Cureton, then Vice President-At-Large, took over the leadership of the Convention when his predecessor Henry Lyons was forced to resign.
 He served the remainder of the Lyons' tenure.
 Cureton, a former math teacher at Sterling High School and Beck High School, was pastor of Reedy River Missionary Baptist Church in South Carolina at the time of his death.
 He was an advocate on state issues such as the establishment of a holiday honoring Martin Luther King in Greenville County.
 Cureton was instrumental in bringing King to Greenville for a speech in April 1967.
 Dr. Cureton was out front in integrating the Public Libraries in Greenville County, South Carolina.
 He died on December 30, 2008 aged 78.
The Most Hated Family in America is a 2007 BBC documentary film written and presented by Louis Theroux about the family at the core of the Westboro Baptist Church.
 The organization was led by Fred Phelps (who has since died) and located in Topeka, Kansas.
 Westboro Baptist Church members believe that the United States government is immoral due to its tolerance of homosexuality; in addition, they protest at funerals of U.S. military killed in action with signs that display text such as "God Hates Fags" and "Thank God for Dead Soldiers".
 With a BBC film crew, Theroux travelled to Kansas to spend time with members of the church and interview its leadership.
 In the documentary, church members are shown protesting at funerals of U.S. soldiers.
 Theroux interviews church leadership including Fred Phelps and Shirley Phelps-Roper.
Fred Waldron Phelps Sr. (November 13, 1929 – March 19, 2014) was an American Baptist minister and civil rights attorney who became notorious for his vehement anti-homosexual rhetoric and protests near the funerals of homosexuals, military veterans, and disaster victims, whose deaths, he believed, were the result of God’s hatred of America’s "bankrupt values" and tolerance of homosexual lifestyles.