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- Excerpt from online obituary:
Ruth Bell was born June 10, 1920, in Qingjiang, Kiangsu, China, the daughter of medical missionaries L. Nelson and Virginia Leftwich Bell. She attended high school in Pyongyang, (now North) Korea. She first came to the United States at the age of seven, while her parents were on furlough. She returned to the United States at the age of 17 to attend Wheaton College in Wheaton, Ill. Shortly after his arrival on campus, she was introduced to "Preacher," the nickname other students gave the strapping Billy Graham from Charlotte, North Carolina. They were married in August 1943, following their graduating together that June.
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1920 - 2007 (87 years)