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Name: LOVELL, Bessie

Birth Date: 1879

Death Date: 10.9.1935 Kiambu

First Date: 1923

Last Date: 1935

Profession: Missionary nurse

Area: Nairobi, Kiambu

Book Reference: Barnes, Gazette

General Information:

Nairobi Forest Road Cemetery - Bessie Lovell, American, age 56, died 10/9/35
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.

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