MONTREAT, N.C. -- It began with the solemn wailing of bagpipes and ended with Billy Graham, her husband of almost 64 years, wiping away a tear just after her plywood casket was loaded into the hearse.

Ruth Bell Graham didn't want to stand in the limelight with thousands of faces staring up at her. She left that job to her husband. But the mother of five attentively sat in the background of her ...

Ruth Bell Graham, a humble missionary's daughter who became the wife of the world's foremost evangelist yet shined outside his shadow in her own right, died at 5:05 p.m. Thursday at home in Montreat ...