 
| Missionary Nurse Isabel Hemingway Passes Away At Age 101 |
Missions News: Biography   She is not the most famous Hemingway on Earth, but missionary nurse Isabel Hemingway is undoubtedly receiving a warm welcome in Heaven, where she arrived early Thursday morning after passing away at the age of 101.  Isabel was Ernest Hemingway's last remaining first cousin, and spent her final days in Pleasant Hill, Tennessee, delighting school children with stories about her amazing life.  Isabel was a missionary kid, born in China and later educated in the United States as a nurse. She returned to China in 1934 and worked in hospitals and a maternity center. In 1952, she moved to Turkey and worked in a village clinic and other health care facilities until retiring in 1973.  In his book, "My Twenty-Five Years In China," author John B. Powell lists Isabel Hemingway as one of several missionary nurses that came to his aid when he was sailing on a ship of refugees leaving China.  Powell reports that the nurses had been in charge of misssion hospitals at interior points in China, some as many as a thousand miles from the coast, and had remained on the job trying to care for patients during the Japanese invasion.  In some cases, the patients were thrown into the street and the hospital closed.  In other cases, the nurses were confined for days without food and would have starved if loyal staff members had not smuggled in rice and vegetables.   What an adventure! What a life! Farewell, Isabel -- and onward and upward to your reward in Heaven.  Read More: Links  Isabel Hemingway, Missinonary Nurse, Dies At 101John B. Powell, My Twenty Years In China  ______________________________________________________________________________ The International Faith Telegraph  |