Maybe you got Billy Graham mixed up with Oral Roberts (died 2009), another prominent evangelist of the time. At one time Oral Roberts had said God would "call me home" if he didn't meet his fundraising goal of $8 million dollars. [link to www.msnbc.msn.com] This may have been why a "big deal" was made of his death.

Maybe you got Katherine Hepburn (died 2003) mixed up with Audrey Hepburn (died 1993).