Ruth Graham

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American Christian author, most well known as the wife of evangelist Billy Graham. She was the second of five children born to medical missionaries at the Presbyterian Hospital 300 miles (480 km) north of Shanghai. At the age of 13 she was enrolled in Pyeng Yang Foreign School in Pyongyang, Korea, where she studied for three years. She completed her high school education at Montreat, North Carolina, while her parents were there on furlough. She graduated from Wheaton College (Illinois) in Wheaton, Illinois. The Grahams met at Wheaton College and were married in the summer of 1943, shortly after their graduation. Ruth Graham became a minister's wife for a brief period in Western Springs, Illinois. She lived out the rest of her life in Montreat, North Carolina. Graham wrote Our Christmas Story, Sitting by My Laughing Fire, It's My Turn, The Legacy of a Pack Rat, Prodigals and Those Who Love Them, Clouds Are the Dust of His Feet, One Wintry Night, Coffee and Conversation with Ruth Bell Graham and Gigi Graham Tchividjian, Collected Poems, Mothers Together and Prayers from a Mother's Heart. Her most recent books published in 2001 are Never Let It End: Poems of a Lifelong Love, Footprints of a Pilgrim: The Life and Loves of Ruth Bell Graham and A Quiet Knowing. Graham had been in frail health since suffering spinal meningitis in 1995, degenerative osteoarthritis of the back and neck and pneumonia. She died at 5:05 pm. EDT on 14 June 2007 at her home in Montreat, with her husband and five children at her bedside, four days after her 87th birthday. Link to Wikipedia biography