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...Corner in a Suitcase. Granny Holdeman grew up as Bertha Halstenberg in a family of 18, on a farm about 80 miles west of St. Louis. She left home at 18 to work in a St. Louis dental college. But what she wanted to be was a missionary...
...Bertha put in four years at the Missionary Training Institute in Nyack, N.Y., cramming all the medical-aid courses she could find. Three times she was set to leave for Africa when the trip was canceled at the last moment. Finally, she wound up in Tennessee's Cumberland Mountains, nursing the sick, teaching the Bible, and making clothes for the dirt-poor cabin dwellers...
...married a widower, raised a son and daughter, canned thousands of quarts of farm produce, and nursed her neighbors through illness and childbirth. But after 25 years of marriage, Bertha Holdeman and her husband were divorced, and she went back to evangelism and Bible teaching. She was in Tampa, when the Rev. John Turnbull and his wife met her while making preparations for an independent Baptist mission in Haiti. One day Bertha Holdeman sighed: "I wish you had a corner in your suitcase to stick me." A month later the Turnbulls invited her to come...
Shirley Barger, Helen Scott Bennett, Dorothea Bourne, Amelia Riddick Brent, Ruth Brine, Marjorie Burns, Peggy Bushong, Nancy McD. Chase, Bertha Cordeiro! Lilian Davidson, Estelle Dembeck, Lois Dickert, Anne Dirkes, Kathleen Donahue, Joan Dye, Kathryn Egan, Marta Erdman, Lenora Ersner, Jane Farley, Marcelle Farrington, Dorothy Ferenbaugh, Blanche Finn, Rosemary L. Frank, Mary Elizabeth Fremd, Judith Friedberg, Marcia Gauger, Marie Kathryn Gibbons, Jean Gutheim, Dorothy Slavin Haysteafl, Harriet Heck, Robin Hinsdale, Bonnie Claire Howells, Vera Kovarsky, E. Eleanore Larsen, Sylvia Crane Myers, Helen Newlin, Amelia North, Mary Baylor Reinhart, Margaret Rorison, Deirdre Mead Ryan, Jane Darby Scholl, Ruth Silva, M. Ava Smith...
...nights after the Korean war began, Methodist Missionaries Bertha Smith, an evangelist, Helen Rosser, a nurse, and Nellie Dyer, a teacher, were arrested in Kaesong by North Korean Communists...