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Article: Billy Graham's wife close to death
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- Deseret News (Salt Lake City)
- Article date:
- June 14, 2007
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MONTREAT, N.C. (AP) -- Ruth Graham, the ailing wife of evangelist
Billy Graham, fell into a coma Wednesday morning and appears to be
close to death, a family spokesman said.
"She appears to be entering the final stages of life," said Larry
Ross, Graham's personal spokesman. Her condition had not changed as
of Wednesday evening, he said.
The news came the same day Billy Graham said he and Ruth will be
buried at the recently dedicated Billy Graham Library in Charlotte.
In a statement, Graham said his 87-year-old wife, who has
degenerative osteoarthritis of the back and neck and has been
bedridden at their home in the mountains of western North Carolina
for some time, "is close to going home to ...