Nairobi Forest Road cemetery - Bessie Lovell, American, age 56, died 10/9/35. Notes: Elizabeth "Bessie" Lovell was born to Lawrence Lovell and his wife Mary Ann Gillespie in Wroxeter, Huron, Ontario, Canada in 1872. Bessie was a missionary nurse in Kijabe, Kenya, with Africa Inland Mission. She graduated from Moody Bible Institute (Chicago, Illinois, USA) in August 1915, at the age of forty-three. She died in Kenya in Sep 1935.

Gazette - 29/10/1919 - Register of Voters - Kikuyu - Bessie Lovell, Nurse, Kijabe

Gazette - 3/12/1919 - Register of Voters - Rift Valley Area - Bessie Lovell - Nurse - Kijabe

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).

After Bessie's death in 1935 Kambui hospital became almost non-functional.

Ancestry Family Tree Wed,7Sep1935, Bessie admitted a young man from a coffee estate to the Kambui Hospital. She thought he had pneumonia but was actually pneumonic plague. He died Friday. By Sunday both Bessie & the native hospital ass't, Kamdu, were ill. They died Tues. [?so died 13 Sep]