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- Morrow Coffey Graham, mother of Billy Graham and known to many as “Mother Graham,” was born in 1892 and died in 1981 in the home her husband, William Franklin Graham, Sr., built on the Graham Dairy Farm in Charlotte, N.C., when Billy was a young boy.
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Jan 6, 2012 · Morrow Coffey Graham, mother of Billy Graham and known to many as “Mother Graham,” was born in 1892 and died in 1981 in the home her husband, William Franklin Graham, Sr., built on the Graham Dairy Farm in Charlotte, N.C., when Billy was a young boy.
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Aug 14, 1981 · CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- Morrow Coffey Graham, the mother of evangelist Billy Graham, died Friday at her Charlotte home after several years of declining health. She was 89.
May 4, 2022 · Billy Graham’s mother, Morrow Coffey Graham, was a woman of faith. While she made sure her children had all they needed physically (good food to eat, clothes to wear, and a comfortable home), she also made sure they were nurtured spiritually.
Now readers can see inside the dynamic faith of Billy Graham’s mother, Morrow Coffey Graham, known as “Mother Graham,” in a new devotional book. “The influence of a mother upon the lives of her...
- There Is Dignity in Hard Work
- A Mother’s Prayers Are Powerful
- Spend Time in God’s Word Every Day
- Start Reading at A Young Age
- Marriage Is Worth Fighting For
- Even The Best Parents Make Mistakes
- Finish Well
“I was taught that laziness was one of the worst evils, and that there was dignity and honor in labor,” Billy Graham wrote in his autobiography, Just As I Am. From an early age, he saw his mother working hard for her family, whether she was chopping wood for the stove or handling the bookkeeping for the family farm. “My mother was a woman who worke...
“What a comfort it was for me to know that no matter where I was in the world, my mother was praying for me,” Billy Graham said. From the time he was a child, his parents would pray often and earnestly for him and his siblings. “Every time my parents prayed for their sons and daughters, they were declaring their dependence on God for the wisdom and...
“She and my father didn’t have much education … but my mother was a woman of God,” Billy Graham said on Mother’s Day in 2003. In his autobiography Just As I Am, Mr. Graham wrote: “When [my parents] read the family Bible together in our home, they were not simply going through a pious ritual. Mother told us that they had established a family altar w...
“At home, from my earliest years, Mother encouraged me in the habit of reading,” Billy Graham wrote in Just As I Am. “The exploits of Robin Hood in Sherwood Forest entranced me. I read the whole Tom Swift series, and the Rover Boys. Among my favorite adventure reading were the Tarzan books; they came out every few months. I could hardly wait for th...
“There had to have been tensions between Daddy and Mother, from time to time, that we children were not supposed to see,” Billy Graham wrote in his autobiography. But he never heard his parents use a word of profanity, and they always found a way to work out their disagreements. “My mother and father (mostly my mother) could storm at each other onc...
Billy Graham and his siblings grew up in a Christian home, but their parents weren’t perfect. Like all parents, they made mistakes. One such mistake was a dangerous one that happened when Billy was a child. “Once when I was sick, Mother thought she was giving me cough medicine, but she gave me iodine instead,” he wrote in Just As I Am. A quick phon...
“Although the testimony of my mother’s life helped mold me and taught me how to live, the testimony of her last years and her death gave me insight into how to die,” Billy Graham wrote. In her later years, when her health declined and her husband had passed away, Morrow Graham made a point of praying and listening to Scripture every morning. “On Au...
May 13, 2024 · Morrow Coffey Graham, Billy Graham’s mother, with her children on February 28, 1971. From left to right: Jean, Melvin, Billy and Catherine. Spend Time in God’s Word Every Day. “She and my father didn’t have much education … but my mother was a woman of God,” Billy Graham said on Mother’s Day in 2003.
Feb 7, 2012 · Billy Graham describes Rose Adams as “a delightful Christian woman who cared for my mother, Morrow Coffey Graham, in her last two years of life.” Decades later, Rose would still visit Billy and Ruth, warming their hearts with memories of Mother Graham, as she was known, and how every conversation would lead back to the Bible.
