Clifford Burton Barrows (April 6, 1923 – November 15, 2016) was a longtime music and program director for the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association. He had been a part of the Graham organization since 1949. Barrows was best known as the

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of Graham's weekly ''

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program, and the song leader and choir director for the crusade meetings.

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Barrows was

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as a

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in 1944, and served as an assistant pastor at Temple Baptist Church in

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through 1945. Barrows joined Graham at a rally in

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that year, and remained with Graham ever since. He appeared in the 1970 film ''His Land'' with British pop singer

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. The film reviews Biblical events as both Cliffs took a

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to Israel. It was produced by Graham's production company, World Wide Pictures. In 1988, Barrows was inducted into the Gospel Music Hall of Fame in

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by the Gospel Music Association. In 1996 he was also inducted into the Religious Broadcasting Hall of Fame by the National Religious Broadcasters. Barrows' longtime colleague, the late Canadian-born singer

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, is also a member of both halls of fame. Barrows died at a hospital in Charlotte, North Carolina, on November 15, 2016, at the age of 93.

Personal life

Barrows and his first wife Wilma Newell (1925–1994)Billy Graham Center Archives, Wheaton College, http://www.wheaton.edu/bgc/archives/GUIDES/622.htm had five children; Bonnie (born 1948), Robert (1950), Betty Ruth (1953), Clifford ("Bud") (1955), and William Burton (1962). In 1995, Barrows married Ann Prince and resided in

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External links

Billy Graham Evangelistic Association: Cliff Barrows biography

Papers of Cliff Barrows
Billy Graham Center Archives, Wheaton, IL * {{DEFAULTSORT:Barrows, Cliff 1923 births 2016 deaths American gospel singers American male singers American performers of Christian music Billy Graham People from Ceres, California

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