Helen Hawbaker, 1955

Containers:: Box 1, Folder 8
Scope and content:: Aerogramme letter from SIM Nigeria Missionary nurse Helen Hawbaker to Mrs. William Farber.
Biographical / historical:: Helen Gladys Hawbaker was born on May 24, 1922 at Dallas Center, Iowa to Clarence Earl and Mary G. (Beshore) Hawbaker. She graduated from Minburn High School in 1938, and attended the University of Iowa in 1944, receiving her nursing degree in 1947. After graduation, she worked in Iowa City until 1948, when she attended Moody Bible Institute in Chicago, receiving her diploma in the Missions Course in 1950. Hawbaker then worked on missions in Nigeria as a nurse in 1951 and returned to the Perry, Iowa area in 1986. She died on December 10, 2010.

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