News has just come from Hankow that Dr. Gertrude Mary Ferrell of the London Mission died in Wuchang on December 26 from diphtheria The news will cast a gloom over many in Shanghai and elsewhere, who have known her.
Her father, a missionary of the London Missionary Society, died years ago at his station in Siaokan, Hupeh, and Mrs. Terroll with her two children returned to England, and there watched over their upbringing until in 1916 she returned to Central China to hee old station, where for the past ten years she has been working. Her student for the mission field, illed on active military service in 1916, and Mary, or Mei-Li as she was known to her frien: later commenced her—medical studies at Bristol, preparatory to coming out to Central China.
Dr. Ferrell had not been long in Hankow, when the troubles there forced her mother and herself e return to Shanghai, and whi this city she gave invaluable help at the Lester Chinese Hospital in Shantung Road. Permitted at length to return to Hankow, she went up river in June and' took charge of the two L. M. 8, hospitals for women in Hankow and Wuchang. It is only a short time since with Mrs. Ferrell she settled residence in Wuchang, and now has come the sad news of her death.
She was loved by all who knew her for her brightness, her unselfish devotion and her brave murage. There will be mourning amongst her many friends in Wuhan, both Chinese and foreign, and we would join with them in deepest sympathy to her mother, who has already given so much sh: holds dear to the poor and needy of central China.
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