‘America’s Pastor’: Evangelist Billy Graham dead at 99
Tim Funk, The Charlotte Observer
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Billy Graham, the dynamic Charlotte-born evangelist whose pioneering talent for combining old-time religion and modern media brought him a worldwide flock and greater fame than any other religious figure in American history, died Wednesday.
Growing up on a dairy farm near what is now Park Road Shopping Center, Graham’s first idea of heaven was playing baseball and …
