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Article: Billy Graham's Wife, Ruth, Dies at 87
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- June 15, 2007
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MONTREAT, N.C. - On a recent visit to Ruth and Billy Graham's beloved home in the western North Carolina mountains, her local pastor recalled, the world's most renowned evangelist fumbled the words to the 23rd Psalm - one of his wife's favorites.
As she had so many times before, Ruth Graham quickly corrected her husband.
It was yet another little reminder of the role Ruth Graham played as her husband's closest confidant, the Rev. Richard White said. The first lady of evangelical Protestantism, she undoubtedly was an equal partner in a ministry that Billy Graham carried to presidents and peasants alike during a spectacular global career that placed him in the pulpit before more than 210 ...