Miller, Mary (d. 1957)

Mennonite Weekly Review obituary: 1957 Jul 18 p. 1

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Veteran Missionary To Africa Dies

MARY MILLER OF ALLENTOWN, PA. PIONEERED IN BELGIAN CONGO

Chicago, Ill. — A cablegram received from Missionary John R. Jantzen at Congo Inland Mission, Kamayala Station, stated "Mary Miller gone to be with her Lord — following surgery." Recent news stated that Miss Miller had been ordered to bed because of a blood clot above her ankle.

A member of the Mennonite Brethren in Christ Church, Allentown, Penna., Mary Miller and her sister, Bertha, went to Congo in 1930, pioneering in the beginning of the Unevangelized Tribes Mission. Almost single handedly they opened the work at Kamayala, which became a haven of mercy for thousands. Their special interests were orphans and leprosy victims.

Their brother Rev. C. L. Miller, now general manager of Union Gospel Press, joined them for nine years, helping to firmly establish the church work. When the U.T.M. capitulated in 1950, the "Miller Sisters" turned the administration of their work over to the Congo Inland Mission who immediately supplied workers and help.

This is the second missionary death at Kamayala in the past year, Rev. Max Grutter having died of a heart attack last October.