Anne Graham Lotz

==Early life==
Lotz was born Anne Morrow Graham, in 1948 in [[Asheville, North Carolina]].<ref>[https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VHF4-PZ2 Birth record for Anne Morrow Graham at FamilySearch.org]</ref> Lotz is the second of the five children born to [[Billy Graham|Billy]] and [[Ruth Graham]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2008/octoberweb-only/144-22.0.html|title=Billy's Rib|last=Zoba|first=Wendy Murray|date=November 13, 1995|website=Christianity Today}}</ref> The Graham Family had settled near Ruth's parents in Montreat in what remains today as the Graham Family Home, Little Piney Cove.<ref>Billy Graham Evangelistic Association.  "Obituary of Ruth Bell Graham."</ref>

Ruth was often the single parent for months at a time to the five Graham children. Of her upbringing, Lotz says, "[My father] was away almost full time. I was raised pretty much by single parents and grandparents, and then I didn't know any different."<ref>Transcript. Larry King Live. Aired May 18, 2000.  http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0005/18/lkl.html{{dead link|date=October 2016 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>

Lotz became a Christian at the age of about eight years old after watching ''[[The King of Kings (1927 film)|The King of Kings]]'', a [[Cecil B. DeMille]] film, on Good Friday.<ref>Kent, Keri Wyatt. "A Reverent Maverick." Christianity Today. October 2008. Pp.46-50.</ref>

Anne Graham graduated from high school and shortly thereafter, married Dr. Daniel Lotz on September 9, 1966, at the age of 18.<ref>Time.com. Milestones: September 9, 1966. [https://web.archive.org/web/20080220192734/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,836343,00.html]</ref> The young couple lived in [[Raleigh, North Carolina]], where Dr. Lotz was beginning his dental practice.<ref>Goodstein, Laurie and Gustav Niebuhr. "The Next Generation of Preachers is Coming of Age in America." The New York Times. January 1, 1999. A1, A14.</ref> She had her first child at the age of 20, with two more in the three years that followed, and she did not work outside her home. Lotz says this was a hard time in her life saying: “Early in my marriage, I felt like I drifted from God just because I was busy – you know, small children, small house, all the business of being a housewife. But I sought God through the Scripture. That’s when I got into the Bible myself.”<ref name="TranscriptLarry">Transcript. Larry King Live.</ref>