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ISABEL
HEMINGWAY GOES HOME AT 101 |
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Missionary Nurse Isabel
Hemingway used a degree in nursing from the former
Philadelphia General Hospital to take her message of
hope and healing around the world. The last remaining
first cousin of author Ernest Hemingway, Isabel was born
in China to missionary parents.
Isabel graduated from Oberlin College with a bachelor's
degree in history in 1930. Her choice of a nursing
career took her to Philadelphia to the hospital where
she graduated in 1932. Hemingway returned to Taigu,
China, where she spoke the local dialect and worked as a
nurse in the hospital there from 1934 until 1941. She
returned to the U.S. as war raged in the Far East,
training as a nurse midwife, then went back to China in
1946 with the U.N. Relief and Rehabilitation
Association.
Assigned to the hospital in Taiyuan near where she grew
up, Hemingway was the head nurse of three obstetrical
wards. In 1949 she and classmate Edith Galt were asked
by UNICEF to coordinate a training program for nurse mid
wives in Beijing in conjunction with the Chinese
government. Together with Dr. Leo Eloesser, they
compiled a technical manual for midwifery in Chinese for
their students. It was later published in English by
UNICEF and was eventually translated into Korean,
Spanish and Portuguese. Although Hemingway left China in
1951, the midwifery program continued for another 20
years.
Beginning in the early 1950s she served with the United
Church of Christ Mission Board in Turkey for 10 years.
She died on Sunday, Feb. 1, and lived in Pleasant Hill,
Tenn.
Source: Philadelphia
Daily News.
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This page
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PRAISE THE ALMIGHTY
10 YEARS CELEBRATION
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