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Collection Overview
Abstract
Lillian Bode was a missionary in China and Taiwan as well as in Zuni, New Mexico, for a short time. The collection includes correspondence, materials, and photographs from China, and articles by and about her.
Biographical Note
Lillian Bode served as a missionary to China and Taiwan as well as New Mexico. She had a sister named Helen Cook, a sister-in-law named Caroline Bode Kuiper, as well as two nephews named Ron and Dennis Bode and a niece named Faith Tibe. She was the daughter of a minister, and attended the Moody Bible Institute before becoming a missionary to China in 1926; she was evacuated from there, due to the Civil War in 1927, the Japanese invasion of China in 1934, and also in 1949 when there was a communist victory. She served in Taiwan from 1963 until 1967. Lillian Bode died at the age of ninety-six years old in Redlands, California.
Box and Folder Listing
Browse by Series:
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Series 1: [General Materials]],
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Series 2: Photographs],
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- Series 1: [General Materials]
- Box 1
- Folder 1: Correspondence
- Folder 2: Written interview --- 1994
- Folder 3: Articles by Lillian Bode
- Folder 4: Articles about Lillian Bode
- Folder 5: Faithful in the Telling: Lillian Bode's Calling Among the Chinese People by Joyce Scholten
- Folder 6: China (Taiwan) materials, collected by L. Bode
- Folder 7: China (Mainland) materials, collected by L. Bode
- Series 2: Photographs
- Box 1
- Folder 8: Photographs - China
- Folder 9: Photographs - Taiwan
- Folder 10: Photographs - Zuni, New Mexico
- Folder 11: Photographs - miscellaneous
