(Columbia) - For the majority of her life, Ruth Graham shared the spotlight with her husband Evangelist Billy Graham. Although she was not the famous face flashing across television screens, she was ...

Tired of ads? Subscribers enjoy a distraction-free reading experience. Click here to subscribe today or Login. About 2,000 gather in Montreat to pay tribute to wife of evangelist. Billy Graham, left, ...

“An odd cross to bear” is an odd but apt phrase that Ruth Bell Graham used to describe her life. Historian Anne Blue Wills effectively argues this point in her biography of Billy Graham’s spouse, ...

With his wife, Ruth Bell Graham, in a coma at home in western North Carolina, the Rev. Billy Graham announced yesterday that she will be buried in the city of Charlotte and not in her beloved ...

In the summer of 1941, Ruth McCue Bell, a 21-year-old college graduate with a razor-sharp mind, made a decision that today might seem, as they say in her adopted state of North Carolina, somewhat ...

When she agreed to marry Billy Graham, Ruth Bell Graham said she knew her life would "be lost in Bill's." For her generation, the pastor's wife was expected to work solely in service to her husband ...

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