Cliff Barrows

Posted on November 16, 2016 
Filed under People

cliff-barrows“Cliff Barrows, the longtime music and program director for the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, has died at age 93.

Barrows son, Bill Barrows, told WYFF News 4 that his father was suffering the complications associated with aging. He was in hospice care in Charlotte.

Family members said he died Tuesday…”

– News from WYFF Channel 4, in Greenville, South Carolina.

See also: Press release from The Billy Graham Evangelistic Association.

“Cliff Barrows, 93, of Marvin, N.C., music and program director of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association (BGEA), passed away today at Carolinas Medical Center-Pineville, following a brief illness.

As longtime director of music programming, and later television and radio programming, for Billy Graham Crusades, Barrows traveled the world with Billy Graham since the first Crusade in Grand Rapids, Mich., in 1947. Barrows hosted the weekly Hour of Decision radio program, heard around the world, for more than 60 years.

Barrows and Graham met in 1945 while Barrows was on his honeymoon. The two men soon formed the first team of what was to later become the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association…”

(Photo courtesy BillyGraham.org.)