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Name: RUCH, Andrew Henry
Birth Date: 2 Feb 1899 Jersey City, New Jersey
Death Date: 15 June 1966 Norristown, Pennsylvania
Nationality: USA
First Date: 1922
Profession: Gospel Missionary Society missionary (Dutch Reformed Church)
Area: Ruiru, Kiambu
Married: In Jersey City 29 Apr 1922 Martha Margaret Wolfe b. 24 Mar 1899 Kenton, Ohio, d. 25 May 1989 Bluebell, Penn., nurse
Children: Emma Louise (Greiner) (12 Dec 1925 Jersey City-27 June 1976 Palm Beach, Florida)
Book Reference: Red 25, Hut
General Information:
Hut has Andrew Ruck
Ancestry Passenger list 30 Dec 1922 London-Mombasa
US census 1930 and 1940 living in Philadelphia
See Evanson N. Wamagatta, The Presbyterian Church of East Africa, 2009, for establishment of mission. Gospel Miss. Society acquired 5 missionary nurses: Mary Gamertsfelder (1906-1937), Margaret Gough (1923-1939), Bessie Lovell (1923-1935), Martha Ruch (1923-1925) and Elnora Boda (1935-1945).