(KS) Belleville Telescope Oct. 20, 1938
Ary J. Holland was born June 9, 1872 in Marion County, Ill., the daughter of A. C. and Susan Holland, and died August 27, 1938, at the age of 66 years, 2 months and 18, days, in Buitenzorg, Java, where she had gone as a missionary many years before.
The family moved from Illinois to Missouri, and in 1879 came to Washington County, Kan., where she lived in the pioneer era of sod houses and the little red school house.
She taught school in Washington, Republic and also Dickinson counties and attended the state normal school at Emporia, during which time, 1901, she enlisted as a foreign missionary of the Methodist W. F. M. S., Topeka branch, and sailed for India, serving in the Methodist girls school in Quala Lumpur and various other fields in India, going to Singapore, S. S., Malay states, and finally Buitenzorg, Java.
As she neared the 55-year age, she was laboring in the East Indies, when the depression hit America. She came back to the U. S. A. for the third time prior to 1928 and itinerated for the church. In 1928, not being permitted to return to her old post in Java as a paid teacher of the W. F. M. S., by reason of the church having abandoned this field, she returned on her own initiative and continued to labor there until she passed away.
She supported this girls Bible School in Buitenzorg after 1928 by sheer will and force of character trusting to her life long friends, many of them here in Kansas, to see her through. She never married, but adopted at Chinese girl baby, Chen Mae Lee, in 1920, who survives her.
As her past 38 years have been spent in the far off corner of the earth, it is there her friends, made through a strenuous life, bear testimony to her real worth. During this 38 year period she was back to America three times, but always ready and anxious to return to a work which she loved.
Her sister, Mrs. Chas. Baecht, of Clyde preceded her in death four years ago. She leaves , besides her adopted daughter, Chen Mae Lee, of Java; three sisters, Mrs. Nora Taylor of Altadena, Cal., Mrs. Virginia Burkholder of Seattle, Wash, and Mrs. Martha Hill of Ashland, Ore., and one brother, Dorwin Holland of Brewster, Wash.
She was laid to rest near the Bible school at Buitenzorg, Java.
Ary J. Holland was born June 9, 1872 in Marion County, Ill., the daughter of A. C. and Susan Holland, and died August 27, 1938, at the age of 66 years, 2 months and 18, days, in Buitenzorg, Java, where she had gone as a missionary many years before.
The family moved from Illinois to Missouri, and in 1879 came to Washington County, Kan., where she lived in the pioneer era of sod houses and the little red school house.
She taught school in Washington, Republic and also Dickinson counties and attended the state normal school at Emporia, during which time, 1901, she enlisted as a foreign missionary of the Methodist W. F. M. S., Topeka branch, and sailed for India, serving in the Methodist girls school in Quala Lumpur and various other fields in India, going to Singapore, S. S., Malay states, and finally Buitenzorg, Java.
As she neared the 55-year age, she was laboring in the East Indies, when the depression hit America. She came back to the U. S. A. for the third time prior to 1928 and itinerated for the church. In 1928, not being permitted to return to her old post in Java as a paid teacher of the W. F. M. S., by reason of the church having abandoned this field, she returned on her own initiative and continued to labor there until she passed away.
She supported this girls Bible School in Buitenzorg after 1928 by sheer will and force of character trusting to her life long friends, many of them here in Kansas, to see her through. She never married, but adopted at Chinese girl baby, Chen Mae Lee, in 1920, who survives her.
As her past 38 years have been spent in the far off corner of the earth, it is there her friends, made through a strenuous life, bear testimony to her real worth. During this 38 year period she was back to America three times, but always ready and anxious to return to a work which she loved.
Her sister, Mrs. Chas. Baecht, of Clyde preceded her in death four years ago. She leaves , besides her adopted daughter, Chen Mae Lee, of Java; three sisters, Mrs. Nora Taylor of Altadena, Cal., Mrs. Virginia Burkholder of Seattle, Wash, and Mrs. Martha Hill of Ashland, Ore., and one brother, Dorwin Holland of Brewster, Wash.
She was laid to rest near the Bible school at Buitenzorg, Java.
(KS) Belleville Telescope Oct. 20, 1938
Ary J. Holland was born June 9, 1872 in Marion County, Ill., the daughter of A. C. and Susan Holland, and died August 27, 1938, at the age of 66 years, 2 months and 18, days, in Buitenzorg, Java, where she had gone as a missionary many years before.
The family moved from Illinois to Missouri, and in 1879 came to Washington County, Kan., where she lived in the pioneer era of sod houses and the little red school house.
She taught school in Washington, Republic and also Dickinson counties and attended the state normal school at Emporia, during which time, 1901, she enlisted as a foreign missionary of the Methodist W. F. M. S., Topeka branch, and sailed for India, serving in the Methodist girls school in Quala Lumpur and various other fields in India, going to Singapore, S. S., Malay states, and finally Buitenzorg, Java.
As she neared the 55-year age, she was laboring in the East Indies, when the depression hit America. She came back to the U. S. A. for the third time prior to 1928 and itinerated for the church. In 1928, not being permitted to return to her old post in Java as a paid teacher of the W. F. M. S., by reason of the church having abandoned this field, she returned on her own initiative and continued to labor there until she passed away.
She supported this girls Bible School in Buitenzorg after 1928 by sheer will and force of character trusting to her life long friends, many of them here in Kansas, to see her through. She never married, but adopted at Chinese girl baby, Chen Mae Lee, in 1920, who survives her.
As her past 38 years have been spent in the far off corner of the earth, it is there her friends, made through a strenuous life, bear testimony to her real worth. During this 38 year period she was back to America three times, but always ready and anxious to return to a work which she loved.
Her sister, Mrs. Chas. Baecht, of Clyde preceded her in death four years ago. She leaves , besides her adopted daughter, Chen Mae Lee, of Java; three sisters, Mrs. Nora Taylor of Altadena, Cal., Mrs. Virginia Burkholder of Seattle, Wash, and Mrs. Martha Hill of Ashland, Ore., and one brother, Dorwin Holland of Brewster, Wash.
She was laid to rest near the Bible school at Buitenzorg, Java.
Ary J. Holland was born June 9, 1872 in Marion County, Ill., the daughter of A. C. and Susan Holland, and died August 27, 1938, at the age of 66 years, 2 months and 18, days, in Buitenzorg, Java, where she had gone as a missionary many years before.
The family moved from Illinois to Missouri, and in 1879 came to Washington County, Kan., where she lived in the pioneer era of sod houses and the little red school house.
She taught school in Washington, Republic and also Dickinson counties and attended the state normal school at Emporia, during which time, 1901, she enlisted as a foreign missionary of the Methodist W. F. M. S., Topeka branch, and sailed for India, serving in the Methodist girls school in Quala Lumpur and various other fields in India, going to Singapore, S. S., Malay states, and finally Buitenzorg, Java.
As she neared the 55-year age, she was laboring in the East Indies, when the depression hit America. She came back to the U. S. A. for the third time prior to 1928 and itinerated for the church. In 1928, not being permitted to return to her old post in Java as a paid teacher of the W. F. M. S., by reason of the church having abandoned this field, she returned on her own initiative and continued to labor there until she passed away.
She supported this girls Bible School in Buitenzorg after 1928 by sheer will and force of character trusting to her life long friends, many of them here in Kansas, to see her through. She never married, but adopted at Chinese girl baby, Chen Mae Lee, in 1920, who survives her.
As her past 38 years have been spent in the far off corner of the earth, it is there her friends, made through a strenuous life, bear testimony to her real worth. During this 38 year period she was back to America three times, but always ready and anxious to return to a work which she loved.
Her sister, Mrs. Chas. Baecht, of Clyde preceded her in death four years ago. She leaves , besides her adopted daughter, Chen Mae Lee, of Java; three sisters, Mrs. Nora Taylor of Altadena, Cal., Mrs. Virginia Burkholder of Seattle, Wash, and Mrs. Martha Hill of Ashland, Ore., and one brother, Dorwin Holland of Brewster, Wash.
She was laid to rest near the Bible school at Buitenzorg, Java.
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