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Lillian Bode Collection, 1954-1995

Collection Overview

Title: Lillian Bode Collection, 1954-1995

ID: COLL/433

Creator: Bode, Lillian (1900-1996)

Extent: 0.25 Cubic Feet. More info below.

Arrangement: Folder level description

Abstract

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 Note

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.

Box and Folder Listing

Series 1: [General Materials]
Box 1
Folder 1: Correspondence
Folder 2: Written interview --- 1994
Folder 3: Articles by Lillian Bode
Folder 4: Articles about Lillian Bode
Folder 5: Faithful in the Telling: Lillian Bode's Calling Among the Chinese People by Joyce Scholten
Folder 6: China (Taiwan) materials, collected by L. Bode
Folder 7: China (Mainland) materials, collected by L. Bode
Series 2: Photographs
Box 1
Folder 8: Photographs - China
Folder 9: Photographs - Taiwan
Folder 10: Photographs - Zuni, New Mexico
Folder 11: Photographs - miscellaneous