Bestand 137A - Greig family papers

0.40 cubic feet (4 folders)

Christine Buhler Suderman was born in a Mennonite family in Lehigh, Kansas 29 September 1888, and raised in Reedley, California. She attended the University of California from 1909 to 1911 and received nurses training in Maternity Hospital (Los Angeles, Calif.) in 1911 and 1912. She was assigned to the McLean Memorial Hospital in Lolodorf from 1912 to 1914; and to Metet from 1916 to 1919. She married fellow missionary Herbert William Greig 22 August 1917. Herbert William Greig was born 6 May 1885 in South Lyon, Michigan, and attended Beloit College and San Jose State College. He was assigned to industrial work in Batanga in 1910. The couple served at Younde through the 1920s, retired from the Cameroon Mission in 1931, and moved to Sitka, Alaska, where Herbert had been hired as a carpentry instructor at Sheldon Jackson School. The couple retired to Wheaton, Illinois in 1937. Their son, Herbert Wallace Greig was a Presbyterian missionary doctor stationed in Ebolowa. He was born 22 March 1922 in Yaounde, Cameroon. He attended Sitka Territorial School from 1936 to 1937 and Wheaton College from 1940 to 1943. He met Shirley McNair Hawkins of Vivian, Ontario while she was a student at Moody Bible Institute. Wallace completed an M.D. at Northwestern Medical School in 1950. Shirley and Wallace were married in 1951, appointed to the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Foreign Missions and sailed for Elat in 1953. Wallace served at Hailman Memorial Hospital in Batouri and at Enongal Central Hospital in Ebolowa. The couple had four children: Margaret known as "Markie", Wallace, Laura, and Brian. On a Christmas visit to her children attending the Good Shepherd School in Addis Ababa, Shirley Greig and Elisabeth Gelzers car broke down. Shirley rode in a passing land rover to find a mechanic; the driver overturned the vehicle. Shirley died of her injuries three days later, 31 December 1967.

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Photographs, 1919-1972, including Mrs. Greig's Chocolate Drops, Cameroon, Philippines.

Publications, 1908-1974, including Anna Lehman memoir.