Ruth Bell

Female 1920 - 2007  (87 years)


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  1. 1.  Ruth Bell was born 10 Jun 1920, Qingjiang, Kiangsu, China; died 14 Jun 2007, Montreat, NC.

    Notes:

    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.

    Ruth married William "Billy" Franklin Graham 13 Aug 1943. William (son of William Franklin Graham and Morrow Coffey) was born 7 Nov 1918, NC; died 21 Feb 2018, NC. [Group Sheet]

    Children:
    1. 2. Anne Morrow Graham  Descendancy chart to this point was born 1948, Montreat, NC.


Generation: 2

  1. 2.  Anne Morrow GrahamAnne Morrow Graham Descendancy chart to this point (1.Ruth1) was born 1948, Montreat, NC.

    Notes:

    From Wikipedia:

    Anne Graham Lotz (born 1948) is an American Christian evangelist. She is the second daughter of famous evangelist Billy Graham and his wife Ruth Graham.

    Lotz was born and raised in Montreat, North Carolina. She married Daniel Lotz, a dentist from Raleigh, when she was 18.

    From 1976 to 1988, she taught Bible Study Fellowship, a weekly women's Bible study group, in Raleigh. In 1988, she founded AnGeL Ministries, a nonprofit organization through which she travels and preaches worldwide. Although as a female evangelist she's encountered some resistance from conservative Christians, her popularity is such that she draws large crowds across the world, and the New York Times in 1999 considered her one of the five most influential evangelists in the United States. She is also the author of numerous books on Christianity and the Bible from an evangelical perspective.

    In 2000, Anne launched her Just Give Me Jesus women

    Anne married Daniel Danny Milton Lotz 1966. Daniel (son of John Milton Lotz and Adeline Helen Kettell) was born 30 Mar 1937, Flushing, New York, NY; died 19 Aug 2015, Raleigh, Wake Co., NC. [Group Sheet]