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Helen M. (Farr) Ford

FORD, FARR

Posted By: Sharyl Ferrall - IAGenWeb volunteer
Date: 12/1/2011 at 05:56:40

Durban, Natal, South Africa, Sept. 9 - Mrs. Helen M. Ford, wife of Mr. J.W. Ford, of the Friends' African Mission, died at Kaimosi Mission Station, Kenya, on the morning of Sunday, August 16, and was buried in the afternoon, after a service in the Kaimosi chapel. The deceased lady, whose, maiden name was Farr, was born at Oskaloosa, Iowa, U.S.A., on August 25, 1871. She grew to young womanhood in New England and Iowa, attending the Quaker School at Oskaloosa. When she was about twenty years of age, her father, Gilbert L. Farr, felt the call to Christian service in the Friends' Jamaica Mission, and Helen and her brother Arthur went with him to Jamaica, where she worked in the mission for fourteen years.

On August 7, 1901, Miss Farr married Mr. J.W. Ford, and worked with her husband in Jamaica and the United States until 1914, when, with their three children, Clara, Esther and Arthur, they went to East Africa under the American Friends' Board of Missions. Their home in East Africa was at the Kitosh Station, and there they laboured zealously and lovingly for the uplift of the natives. During the past two years Mrs. Ford travelled from place to place with her husband in his evangelistic tours, averaging six to eight different camping places each month, a few days at each place.

The deceased lady was dearly loved by all the native people in Mount Elgon down to the Maragoli Station, but a few miles from Kioumu. Hers was the exemplary Christian life, and she will be greatly missed by all the Missionary societies represented in the East African field. Hundreds of natives attended the funeral service, and many were heard to say: "What shall we do without our white mother to help us in our troubles and care for our sick children!" The deceased lady's eldest daughter, Miss Clara Ford, has been teaching the native girls in the Scottish Mission at Kikuyu for the past few months. Her second daughter has just finished her college course in the United States, and is looking forward to going to Africa for mission work. The youngest child, Arthur, is still at school in America.

~The Gleaner, Kingston, Jamaica
November 5, 1931


 

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