Celebrating A Life
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Bruce Reid Henry
Posted: 20 April 2012 by bms_editor
Bruce Charles Reid Henry 22 July 1918 – 31 October 2011 Bruce Henry was born on 22 July 1918 near Kandy, Sri Lanka, the eldest son of George Reid Henry, also born in Sri Lanka, and Olive who originally came to Sri Lanka as a BMS...
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Irena Mellor
Posted: 20 April 2012 by bms_editor
Irena (Rena) Mellor 25 February 1940 – 24 October 2011 Rena was born on 25 February 1940 in the Henry Morden Stanley Hospital, St Asaph, Denbighshire, a building which had been a workhouse where H M Stanley lived between the ages of...
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Ringa Pachuau
Posted: 3 November 2011 by bms_editor
Mr Lalringa Pachuau 1948 – 2011 Lalringa Pachuau spent his life devoted to serving God in all different aspects. Originally from Mizoram, India, Ringa (as he was known) represented the strong ties which have existed between BMS and the...
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Dorothy Medway
Posted: 14 October 2011 by bms_editor
Dorothy Grace Medway 14 August 1899 – 4 April 2004 Dorothy Medway, whose life spanned from the 19th to the 21st centuries, spent most of her career in rural India working for the Baptist Missionary Society. Her patients ranged from the...
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Chris Hutt
Posted: 7 July 2011 by bms_editor
Rev Christopher John Hutt 6 August 1939 – 26 March 2011 Chris was born on 6 August 1939 in Northwood, Middlesex. He went to Latymer Upper School in Hammersmith. He had ambitions about becoming a dentist but didn’t do well...
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David Brown
Posted: 7 July 2011 by bms_editor
Rev David Alan Brown 14 January 1943 – 16 April 2011 David was born in Birmingham on 14 January 1943, one of five children of Mark and Rose Brown. The family moved to Swansea and on leaving school he became an engineering apprentice at...
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Margaret Pearce
Posted: 7 July 2011 by bms_editor
Mrs Margaret Eleanor Pearce 22 November 1937 – 21 March 2011 Margaret was born in Kingston-on-Thames, eldest child of Bert and Marjorie Jones. She grew up in the Stoneygate area of Leicester, where the family attended the Baptist Church...
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Margaret Grenfell
Posted: 7 July 2011 by bms_editor
Mrs Margaret Hampden Grenfell 24 August 1905 – 21 April 2011 The funeral and thanksgiving service for Margaret, aged 105, was a memorable occasion. Family and friends travelled from near and far to be at Rickmansworth Baptist Church on 20 May...
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Dr Swehla Mong Chowdhury
Posted: 19 November 2010 by bms_editor
Dr Swehla Mong Chowdhury died 31 Oct 2010 It was with immense sadness that we heard the news of the death of Dr Swehla Mong Chowdhury, for many years Medical Superintendent of the Christian Hospital and Christian Leprosy Centre, Chandraghona...
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Carolyn Green
Posted: 23 September 2010 by bms_editor
MRS CAROLYN MARGARET GREEN (1950 – 2007) CONGO (1979 – 1991) and TUNISIA (2002 – 2007) Carolyn Green (nee McCallum) was born 31 October 1950 in Edinburgh, the only child of Donald (later Sir Donald) and Barbara McCallum. Carolyn...