COLL/433 Guide to the Lillian Bode Collection Bode, Lillian Collection

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Guide to the Lillian Bode Collection 1954/1995 Heritage Hall, Hekman Library Overview of the Collection Lillian Bode Collection 1954-1995 COLL/433 Bode, Lillian, 1900-1996 0.25 1 Boxes Heritage Hall, Hekman Library
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Lillian Bode was a missionary in China and Taiwan as well as in Zuni, New Mexico, for a short time. The collection includes correspondence, materials, and photographs from China, and articles by and about her.
Biographical Information:

Lillian Bode served as a missionary to China and Taiwan as well as New Mexico. She had a sister named Helen Cook, a sister-in-law named Caroline Bode Kuiper, as well as two nephews named Ron and Dennis Bode and a niece named Faith Tibe. She was the daughter of a minister, and attended the Moody Bible Institute before becoming a missionary to China in 1926; she was evacuated from there, due to the Civil War in 1927, the Japanese invasion of China in 1934, and also in 1949 when there was a communist victory. She served in Taiwan from 1963 until 1967. Lillian Bode died at the age of ninety-six years old in Redlands, California.

Arrangement of Materials:

Folder level description

Detailed List of Contents id49582 [General Materials] id49583 1 id49584 1 1 Correspondence id49585 1 2 Written interview 1994 id49586 1 3 Articles by Lillian Bode id49587 1 4 Articles about Lillian Bode id49588 1 5 Faithful in the Telling: Lillian Bode's Calling Among the Chinese People by Joyce Scholten id49589 1 6 China (Taiwan) materials, collected by L. Bode id49590 1 7 China (Mainland) materials, collected by L. Bode id49591 Photographs id49592 1 id49593 1 8 Photographs - China id49594 1 9 Photographs - Taiwan id49595 1 10 Photographs - Zuni, New Mexico id49596 1 11 Photographs - miscellaneous