Pastor Ruth Graham was the wife to the famous pastor Billy Graham, she was a lovely mother of five children. she knew from a knew from a very young age that she has a calling to serve God, she grew up in a very religious home, she was vital to her husbands ministry.
RUTH GRAHAM AGE
Ruth Graham was born on 10th June 1920 to her family.
RUTH GRAHAM PARENTS
Ruth Graham previously known as Ruth McCue Bell was born to Nelson L. Bell and Virginia bell.
RUTH GRAHAM PLACE OF BIRTH
Ruth Graham She had four siblings Rosa, Virginia, and Clayton when she was growing up.
RUTH GRAHAM EARLY LIFE
Ruth Graham grew up on a Chinese mission field because both here parents were, medical missionaries at the Presbyterian Hospital. She was a poet and writer.
RUTH GRAHAM HUSBAND
Ruth Graham got married to Billy Graham, she met him in college, in 1943. Ruth 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 Ruth Graham raised the children up for most of the time, since her husband was always somewhere else evangelizing, she was a very supportive wife, when she was pregnant with her first child, she told her husband that they should move back close to her parents. Poetry helped he cope during her husbands long travels.
RUTH GRAHAM CHILDREN
Ruth Graham together with her husband Billy Graham has five children named Gigi, Anne, Ruth, Franklin and Nelson Edman. She also has nineteen grandchildren, and numerous great grandchildren.
Ruth and Billy graham children stated that being a preachers kid does not make them less human in terms of temptations and trials they had their fair share of bitter sweet moment, they had their fair share of going astray and many more but what was most important and what kept them was the kind of love they were shown and given by their parents.
There have been divorces, a runaway grandchild, drug abuse and some general misbehavior in the children’s younger years.
One daughter, Ruth Graham, wrote a 2004 book recounting some of her struggles with the title, “In Every Pew Sits a Broken Heart.”, Ned also spoke of how in the past, he would return to the family home in Montreat in the small hours of the morning, “drunk or stoned or something.”
RUTH GRAHAM HEIGHT AND WEIGHT
Ruth Graham was 1.79m tall and she weighed 71kg.
RUTH GRAHAM EDUCATION
- Ruth Graham went to her high school in Pyongyang, now in North Korea.
- Ruth Graham went to college at Wheaton College outside, Chicago Illinois.
RUTH GRAHAM MINISTRY
Ruth Graham knew from a very young age that she has a calling to serve God, she grew up in a very religious home, she was vital to her husbands ministry as he always seek her advice before making decisions relating to his ministry, she even helped him name their first radio program in the 50’s she called it “hour of decision” so she had a dream to serve medical missionaries at the Presbyterian Hospital.
RUTH GRAHAM NET WORTH
Ruth mcCue Bell Graham net worth is between the ranges of 1 million united sates dollars to five million United States dollars. A lot of her money she made from the sales of her books and poetry.
RUTH GRAHAM DEATH
Ruth graham was 87 years old when she died, she suffered from degenerative osteoarthritis of the neck and back, which started when she fell from a swing she was testing, which she made for her grand children, this led to severe back ache for a very long time, she also suffered from spinal meningitis. She had pneumonia towards then end of her life and finally died. She died on June 14, 2007 by 5:05pm
RUTH HUSBAND (BILLY GRAHAM)
William Franklin Graham, Jr. was born November 7, 1918, on a dairy farm near Charlotte, N.C. which his paternal grandfather Crook Graham bought after serving in the Confederate army. Billy Graham got converted into the line of evangelism at age 16 Graham was ordained a Southern Baptist minister in 1939. He was educated in conservative Christian colleges: Bob Jones University in Greenville, S.C., the Florida Bible Institute (now called Trinity College). Graham launched his worldwide ministry with his first overseas tour in 1954 to Great Britain. His net worth was 25 million United States dollars. He died on the 21st February 2018; as a result of He was 99. Billy Graham was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease in 1989, which was later clarified to be a build up of fluids in his brain, he had cancer, pneumonia, and other ailments, and he retired in 2005.
Billy Graham said a few days to the death of his wife “Ruth is my soul mate and best friend, and I cannot imagine living a single day without her by my side. I am more and more in love with her today than when we first met over 65 years ago as students at Wheaton College.” He said, his wife had decided to be buried beside each other at the Billy Graham library in charlotte, in North Carolina. They are both buried at the Billy Graham library.
RUTH GRAHAM BOOKS
Below are some inspiring books by Ruth Graham:
- One wintry night
- Prodigals and those who love them
- Legacy of a pack rat
- Its my turn
- Mothers together
- Sitting by my laughing fire
- A quiet knowing
- Forgiving my father, forgiving myself
- A legacy of love
- Clouds are the dust of his feet
RUTH GRAHAM POEMS
- Mothers Together
- Prayers From A Mother’s Heart.
RUTH GRAHAM QUOTES
- “It is a foolish woman who expects her husband to be that which only Jesus Christ himself can be: ready to forgive, totally understanding, unendingly patient, invariably tender and loving, unfailing in every area, anticipating every need and making more than adequate provision. Such expectations put a man under an impossible strain. The same goes for the man who expects too much from his wife.”
- “Take all away, I am content to know that such love is mine, for life is all too brief to grieve for pleasures bringing only grief, give me but you, it is enough just so.”
- “If our children have the background of a Godly happy home, and this unshakable faith that the bible is indeed the word of God, they will have a foundation that the forces of hell cannot shake.”
- “Temptation and testing (or trial) are two sides of a coin, Satan uses an occasion or person to tempt us to fall; God uses the same to try to make us strong.”
- “My job is to take care of the possible and trust God with the impossible.”
- “God has not always answered all my prayers, if he had, I would have married the wrong man several times.”
- “Dear God, I prayed all unafraid (as we are inclined to do) I do not need a handsome man but let him be like you; I do not need one so big and strong nor yet so very tall, nor need to be some genius or wealthy, lord at all; but let his head be high, dear God and let his eyes be clear, his shoulders straight whatever his state, whatever his earthly sphere; and let his face have character, a ruggedness of soul and if his whole life show, dear God a singleness of goal; then when he coms (as he will come), with quiet eyes aglow, I will understand that he is the man I prayed for long ago.”
- “A successful marriage is made up of two forgivers.”
- “We cannot pray and remain the same.”
- “Every cat knows that some things need to be buried.”
RUTH GRAHAM AND BILLY GRAHAM ORGANIZATION
In 1966, the couple founded an organization called the Ruth and Billy Graham Children’s Health Center. It was located in North Carolina.