CARTHAGE, Mo. (KY3) - The founder of Precious Moments, Sam Butcher, has died at the age of 85. According to the Precious Moments website, in the 1970s, Butcher started drawing the famous teardrop ...

By 1995, there were more than 500,000 Precious Moments club members in the United States and more than 30,000 shops selling the figurines at prices ranging from $25 to $300.