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New article name new article content ... Edith Winifred Simester was born into a Methodist Episcopal missionary family in Foochow, China on May 23, 1902, Her father was the Reverend James Simester a graduate of Drew University Theological Seminary in Madison, NJ., and her mother was Winifred Smack Simester, the last of fourteen children born to Samuel Knapp Smack of Chatham, NJ. Edith Simester attended Chinese schools before moving to the United States with her mother and siblings in 1905 after the death of her father. She attended college and graduate school in the United States. In 1930, Simester entered missionary service and moved to Foochow (Fuzhou) in northern China where she worked as a teacher in a missionary school. She ended her missionary work in Fuzhou in 1946 when she decided to return to the U.S. to care for her ailing mother. Eventually Simester took a missionary post in Brazil, to be closer to her mother who died in 1952. In 1961 she married Paul G. Roeder. She died in Vancouver, Washington on April 4, 1991 at the age of 88. Her papers and letters are housed at the University of Washington, in Eugene, Oregon.
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editI have prime source information from my father including notes and photos. Edith Winifred Simester was my father's first cousin. There is a collection of Edith's papers and letters at the University of Oregon in Eugene Oregon.
http://nwda-db.orbiscascade.org/findaid/ark:/80444/xv18821
I also have a friend in China who has access to the historical records of the Methodist Episcopal Church in Fuchow, China where she was a missionary.
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