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Margarete was a leader, teacher, scholar, pioneer, and an influential professor at La Sierra.
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Anna Leonore (Ingels) Hindson served the church in California as secretary of the California Tract Society for nine years and, for more than forty years, she served in Australia in various positions including secretary of the Australian Tract Society, secretary of the Australasian Union Conference; secretary [director] of the Home Missions department, the Young People’s department; and the Sabbath School department, and editor of the Australasian Union Record and the Missionary Leader.
Worthie Holden was an author whose poems frequently were featured in the Review, sometimes on the front cover.
Florence Muriel Howe was a nurse and missionary to China and Africa.
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Maria L. Huntley, pioneering home missionary, secretary, treasurer, editor, writer, religious liberty advocate, and educator, was born on August 9, 1848, in Lepster, New Hampshire.
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Jennie L. Ireland (1871-1961) served the Adventist cause through publishing, healthcare, pastoral ministry, evangelism, Bible worker training, and conference departmental leadership. As a white woman, one of her defining achievements was partnering with Black Americans in Los Angeles to start the first successful Black Adventist church west of the Mississippi River.
Beatrice Florence James was an outstanding layperson, educator, businessperson, health worker, leader, evangelist, and a philanthropist from Nigeria.
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Valarie Justiss-Vance was a social worker, educator, and activist who helped lead efforts to improve race relations in the Seventh-day Adventist Church.
Meri Kahinju was a lay evangelist to the Rwenzoris, Uganda, and the first woman to serve as a preacher in Uganda.
Guillermina Deggeller de Kalbermatter was a missionary nurse in Peru and Argentina, and wife of missionary Pedro Kalbermatter (1886-1968).
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Ella Eaton Kellogg made a significant impact on home economics, dietetics, and children’s rights. She was the wife of John Harvey Kellogg, a Seventh-day Adventist physician, health promoter, nutritionist, inventor, author, eugenicist, and entrepreneur.
Florence M. Kidder began teaching at a Seventh-day Adventist school in 1903 and continued teaching in church schools for 65 consecutive years until her death in 1967.
Mary Kilel was a Kenyan missionary nurse to Uganda, a lay evangelist, and a leader of the youth movement in Nandi in Western Kenya.
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Rochelle Florence Philmon Kilgore was an exemplary student, a church school teacher, an English professor, an international student recruiter, and centenarian.
Rachel “Anna” Knight was an African-American Adventist missionary nurse, teacher, colporteur, Bible worker, and conference official.
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Lauretta Eby Kress, the first female physician to practice in Montgomery County, Maryland, was widely respected for her skill as an obstetrician and her expertise in women’s health and prenatal care. She and her husband, Daniel H. Kress, founded Adventist sanitariums and promoted public health in England, Australia, and the United States.
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Maria Kudzielicz was an Adventist nursing pioneer and first director of the Adventist nursing school in Brazil.
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Lucy Mae Kum was a pioneering Guyanese student, college instructor, and Department of Business chairperson at Caribbean Union College (now the University of the Southern Caribbean) in Trinidad for 30 years.
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Bertha Amelia Kurtz was an Adventist colporteur and missionary.
Herminia de Guzman Ladion was an educator, health lecturer, renowned author of books on natural remedies, writer of many health articles, and one of the pioneer advocates of a healthy lifestyle and natural remedies in the Philippines.
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