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Re: Ethel L. Mabuce Soelberg --biography
| marysday (View posts) | Posted: 13 Jun 2009 2:12AM GMT |
Classification: Biography
Surnames: Mabuce, Soelberg, Miinch, Griffith
Bollinger Co.
1851-1978
page 938
ETHEL L. MABUCE SOELBERG
Ethel L. Mabuce Soelberg, a teacher and church leader during her early life in Bollinger County, became the first person from the county to be accepted for an overseas assignment by the Women's Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church. A reception in her honor was held at the Methodist Episcopal Church in Lutesville, which was also known as the Northern Methodist Church, on Sept. 11, 1916, shortly before she left home to begin training prior to her departure from the United States in November of 1916. She was the third daughter of Hans H. and Kate Miinch Mabuce, and was born in the Bessville area on Dec. 23, 1886. She received her early education at the Hahn School near Bessville and later attended Will Mayfield College at Marble Hill; the Chicago Evangelistic Institute in Chicago, Ill. and Taylor University at Upland, Ind. where she received the A.B. degreee in July of 1916. Ethel Mabuce taught at Barber, a country school in this county, and in the Lutesville public schools before going to Burma for her missionary work. Stationed at Rangoon and Pegu, she worked chiefly with the Sunday schools and women's groups among the Burmese. Returning to her home for a furlough in 1921, she enrolled at Northwestern University for graduate work. Instead of going back to Burma, she married the Rev. Chris J. Soelberg of Imogene, Iowa. He was born in Rougntved, Denmark, Sept. 26, 1886 and came to America when he was 18. He had also worked as a missionary in Burma, initiating the Methodist work among the Chinese in Rangoon. Their marriage took place at the Mabuce home with her brother John, a Methodist minister, performing the ceremony on Nov. 13, 1923. They spent most of their years in the Methodist ministry in Iowa and Kansas. Mrs. Soelberg frequently participated in missionary conferences, and after her husband's death in 1954, she worked in a children's hospital in St. Louis. Prior to Rev. Soelberg's death they lived in Lutesville. She later lived there and at Cape Girardeau before retiring to Homelife at Farmington in 1972. Letters which she wrote to her family at home during her missionary career were printed in a book entitled, "I Always Wore My Topi: The Burma Letters of Ethel Mabuce 1916-1921" by the University of Alabama Press in 1974, edited by her niece, Lucille Griffith
1851-1978
page 938
ETHEL L. MABUCE SOELBERG
Ethel L. Mabuce Soelberg, a teacher and church leader during her early life in Bollinger County, became the first person from the county to be accepted for an overseas assignment by the Women's Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church. A reception in her honor was held at the Methodist Episcopal Church in Lutesville, which was also known as the Northern Methodist Church, on Sept. 11, 1916, shortly before she left home to begin training prior to her departure from the United States in November of 1916. She was the third daughter of Hans H. and Kate Miinch Mabuce, and was born in the Bessville area on Dec. 23, 1886. She received her early education at the Hahn School near Bessville and later attended Will Mayfield College at Marble Hill; the Chicago Evangelistic Institute in Chicago, Ill. and Taylor University at Upland, Ind. where she received the A.B. degreee in July of 1916. Ethel Mabuce taught at Barber, a country school in this county, and in the Lutesville public schools before going to Burma for her missionary work. Stationed at Rangoon and Pegu, she worked chiefly with the Sunday schools and women's groups among the Burmese. Returning to her home for a furlough in 1921, she enrolled at Northwestern University for graduate work. Instead of going back to Burma, she married the Rev. Chris J. Soelberg of Imogene, Iowa. He was born in Rougntved, Denmark, Sept. 26, 1886 and came to America when he was 18. He had also worked as a missionary in Burma, initiating the Methodist work among the Chinese in Rangoon. Their marriage took place at the Mabuce home with her brother John, a Methodist minister, performing the ceremony on Nov. 13, 1923. They spent most of their years in the Methodist ministry in Iowa and Kansas. Mrs. Soelberg frequently participated in missionary conferences, and after her husband's death in 1954, she worked in a children's hospital in St. Louis. Prior to Rev. Soelberg's death they lived in Lutesville. She later lived there and at Cape Girardeau before retiring to Homelife at Farmington in 1972. Letters which she wrote to her family at home during her missionary career were printed in a book entitled, "I Always Wore My Topi: The Burma Letters of Ethel Mabuce 1916-1921" by the University of Alabama Press in 1974, edited by her niece, Lucille Griffith