News coverage of Ruth Bell Graham's life has been quite good. The Asheville Citizen-Times has a web page directing visitors to a number of articles and photos and multimedia posts. The Charlotte Observer offers a full video of today's funeral service in Montreat, North Carolina. The Charlotte Observer offers many articles such as this one which includes links to various other articles.
Journalist Terry Mattingly has a particularly fine internet post titled "Much More Than the Preacher's Wife," which is worth reading. He says,
"Anyone who has ever studied the life and career of the world’s most famous evangelist knows that Ruth Bell Graham was much more than his wife. . . Ruth Bell Graham was nothing less, in my opinion, than the X-factor in her husband’s life . . .
Here is the link to the emotional tribute to Ruth at the homepage of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association. There are also some wonderful audio files on Ruth’s life at A Pilgrim Journey.
And The Charlotte Observer is, as the major newspaper in Billy Graham’s hometown, going to keep covering the story in-depth while other newspapers move on. Here is one of the major wrap-up stories with lots of details and history. And here is a witty part of a tribute column (“She was so much more than an evangelist’s wife”) by Ken Garfield, the former Observer religion writer who took over that desk soon after I left in the mid-1980s . . .