Childhood
Anne Graham Lotz is the second of the five children born to Billy and Ruth Graham. She was born, Anne Morrow Graham, in 1948 in Montreat, North Carolina. The Graham Family had settled near Ruth’s parents in Montreat in what remains today as the Graham Family Home, Little Piney Cove.
Ruth was often the single parent for months at a time to the five Graham children. Of her upbringing, Anne Graham Lotz says, “ was away almost full time. I was raised pretty much by single parents and grandparents, and then I didn’t know any different.”
Anne Graham Lotz accepted Jesus Christ as her savior at the age of about eight years old after watching King of Kings, a Cecil B. DeMille film.
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