Coffin, Day Dean (1893-1973) and Edyth Crystel (Gruber) (1896–1992)
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2022-05-05
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Dr. Day and Edyth Coffin (高清瑞) served as missionaries in southern China for twenty-two years, including many years in war conditions. Day served as a medical doctor, and Edyth served as treasurer bookkeeper, and matron. They developed a medical institution at Nanning, Guangxi Province, leaving it functioning as a well-respected sixty-bed hospital, and then transferred to care for the Canton Sanitarium and Hospital in Guangdong Province.
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missionaries, China, medical doctor, treasurer, bookkeeper, matron
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Hook, M. (2022). Coffin, Day Dean (1893-1973) and Edyth Crystel (Gruber) (1896–1992). In D. Trim (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Seventh-day Adventists. General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists. https://encyclopedia.adventist.org/
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2690-8514