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| Plaques and monuments for Miss Jessie Green located on the
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China – Malaysia
Missionary Dies at 79
CALHOUN, GA (BP) –
Jessie Green, one of two missionaries who elected to remain in Wuchow,
China with Bill Wallace after the country was taken over by communists,
died November 25 , 1982 in Calhoun, Georgia. She was 79.
Green escaped from Wuchow shortly after
the communists reached that city because it was feared her safety, as an
evangelistic worker was less secure than that of the other missionaries,
both medical workers. Wallace, later imprisoned by the communists, died in
Wuchow. The other missionary, Everley Hayes, was allowed to leave the
country six months after his death. Wallace was later the subject of the
book, Bill Wallace in China.
For 15 years before the communist
takeover, Green was a rural evangelistic worker, principal of a Bible
school in Wuchow and teacher of English-language Bible classes in Tsunyi.
When she transferred to Malaysia after
escaping from China, she became Southern Baptists’ second missionary in
that country. She helped Chinese Baptists in Kuala Lumpur begin a church
and worked with this group and other Baptist Churches in the capital area
for nine years.
From 1959 – 61 she did religious education
promotion in Ipoh, Malaysia.
Her final assignment was in Petaling Jaya,
Malaysia, where she was the superintendent of the Baptist center with a
program that included various religious organizations, a kindergarten,
adult education classes and a lending library. She retired in 1968 after
32 years.
She was born in Adairsville, Georgia,
received the bachelor of arts degree from Tift College, Forsyth, Georgia,
and the master of Christian training degree Baptist Bible Institute (now
New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary). She also studied at Women’s
Missionary Union Training School (now merged with the Southern Baptist
Theological Seminary), in Louisville, Kentucky, and Southwestern Baptist
Theological Seminary, Fort Worth, Texas.
Miss Green taught in the public schools of
Georgia and did mission work among the French-speaking people of Louisiana
before her appointment in 1936.
Funeral services were held on November 27,
1982 at First Baptist Church of Calhoun, Georgia. She is survived by two
brothers, Dwight T. Green of Calhoun, Ga. and G. Truett Green of
Cedartown, Ga.
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