After years protesting at funerals, his family ought not be surprised when angry protestors surround his funeral. The Christian preacher from Kansas, who built an empire of hate so vast it reach international notoriety, will soon meet his maker. Following internal strife within his family, Fred Phelps Sr. is now alone in hospice care in Topeka.

The news was released by one of the Rev. Fred Phelps Sr.'s sons, Nathan Phelps. He left his father's controversial church more than 30 years ago and made the statement on his Facebook page. Phelps Sr., a former lawyer, founded the Westboro Baptist Church in the 1950s and started focusing on opposing the LGBT movement in the United States in 1991. Having protested the funerals of gay-hate crime victims, fallen soldiers and celebrities, the church has been deemed a hate group and has received the ire of the masses.

Nathan Phelps explains that his father is near death in Midland Hospice House in Topeka, Kansas, according to the Topeka Capital-Journal. Nathan Phelps added that his father was excommunicated from the church in August 2013 and placed in the hospice.

The Capital-Journal approached the family to verify Nathan Phelps' accounts about their patriarch's health and his excommunication. "We don't owe any talk to you about that," Mark Drain, spokesman for the church, said. "We don't discuss our internal church dealings with anybody. It's only because of his notoriety that you are asking."

He declined to confirm the allegations concerning the senior's health. However, another estranged son, Mark Phelps confirmed his brother's statement. "Just a quick note to assure you the information you wrote and published this morning is accurate," Phelps emailed to The Capital-Journal. "I do not know anything more than you know, at this time, but what you wrote I know to be true, personally, just as Nathan (Nate Phelps) knows to be true also."