Note: She was born in Hattiesburg, Perry County, Mississippi. Hattiesburg, incorporated on March 11, 1884, was a part of Perry County until a portion of western Perry County was made into Forrest County on 6 Jan 1908. Hattiesburg was located on that portion.
Courtesy of Find A Grave Contributor Ed Burkett (47498876)
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As A Missionary, She Spent Many Years Inside China
OBITUARIES
Saturday, May 10, 1997|By Sherri M. Owens of The Sentinel Staff
Winnie Bennett Ayers of Winter Garden believed in the power of teaching. She shared her knowledge of English and Christianity in the United States and abroad.
Born in Hattiesburg, Mississippi on January 22, 1898, daughter of William Alexander Bennett and Corinne Estelle Dobbins Bennett. Mrs. Ayers was an active member of the First Baptist Church of Winter Garden, Florida and is best remembered for her missionary work in China. She died Friday (May 9, 1997). She was 99.
After finishing classes at the Carver School of Missions and Social Services in Louisville, Kentucky, she left for China in July 1921 to teach English for the Southern Baptist Foreign Mission Board. Later that year she married fellow teacher Sanford Emmett Ayers.
She continued her mission work, teaching at four schools in Shandong and Henan provinces. The couple returned to the United States so he could begin medical studies, then went back to China to continue their work.
The two were forced to leave in 1939 because of the Sino-Japanese war. When that war and World War II were over, they returned to China and remained until the Chinese Communist victory was imminent in 1949.
Six years later, they settled in Winter Garden, Florida where her husband, a physician in town, he died in 1968.
Mrs. Ayers is survived by a daughter, Virginia Ayers Bradford of Winter Garden, Florida; a son, Thomas William Ayers of Hopkinton, New Hampshire; sisters, Rebecca Hatten of Petal,
Mississippi, and Mary Virginia Grubbs of New Iberia, Louisianna; eight grandchildren; and 13 great-grandchildren.
Courtesy of Find A Grave Contributor Ed Burkett (47498876)
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As A Missionary, She Spent Many Years Inside China
OBITUARIES
Saturday, May 10, 1997|By Sherri M. Owens of The Sentinel Staff
Winnie Bennett Ayers of Winter Garden believed in the power of teaching. She shared her knowledge of English and Christianity in the United States and abroad.
Born in Hattiesburg, Mississippi on January 22, 1898, daughter of William Alexander Bennett and Corinne Estelle Dobbins Bennett. Mrs. Ayers was an active member of the First Baptist Church of Winter Garden, Florida and is best remembered for her missionary work in China. She died Friday (May 9, 1997). She was 99.
After finishing classes at the Carver School of Missions and Social Services in Louisville, Kentucky, she left for China in July 1921 to teach English for the Southern Baptist Foreign Mission Board. Later that year she married fellow teacher Sanford Emmett Ayers.
She continued her mission work, teaching at four schools in Shandong and Henan provinces. The couple returned to the United States so he could begin medical studies, then went back to China to continue their work.
The two were forced to leave in 1939 because of the Sino-Japanese war. When that war and World War II were over, they returned to China and remained until the Chinese Communist victory was imminent in 1949.
Six years later, they settled in Winter Garden, Florida where her husband, a physician in town, he died in 1968.
Mrs. Ayers is survived by a daughter, Virginia Ayers Bradford of Winter Garden, Florida; a son, Thomas William Ayers of Hopkinton, New Hampshire; sisters, Rebecca Hatten of Petal,
Mississippi, and Mary Virginia Grubbs of New Iberia, Louisianna; eight grandchildren; and 13 great-grandchildren.
Note: She was born in Hattiesburg, Perry County, Mississippi. Hattiesburg, incorporated on March 11, 1884, was a part of Perry County until a portion of western Perry County was made into Forrest County on 6 Jan 1908. Hattiesburg was located on that portion.
Courtesy of Find A Grave Contributor Ed Burkett (47498876)
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As A Missionary, She Spent Many Years Inside China
OBITUARIES
Saturday, May 10, 1997|By Sherri M. Owens of The Sentinel Staff
Winnie Bennett Ayers of Winter Garden believed in the power of teaching. She shared her knowledge of English and Christianity in the United States and abroad.
Born in Hattiesburg, Mississippi on January 22, 1898, daughter of William Alexander Bennett and Corinne Estelle Dobbins Bennett. Mrs. Ayers was an active member of the First Baptist Church of Winter Garden, Florida and is best remembered for her missionary work in China. She died Friday (May 9, 1997). She was 99.
After finishing classes at the Carver School of Missions and Social Services in Louisville, Kentucky, she left for China in July 1921 to teach English for the Southern Baptist Foreign Mission Board. Later that year she married fellow teacher Sanford Emmett Ayers.
She continued her mission work, teaching at four schools in Shandong and Henan provinces. The couple returned to the United States so he could begin medical studies, then went back to China to continue their work.
The two were forced to leave in 1939 because of the Sino-Japanese war. When that war and World War II were over, they returned to China and remained until the Chinese Communist victory was imminent in 1949.
Six years later, they settled in Winter Garden, Florida where her husband, a physician in town, he died in 1968.
Mrs. Ayers is survived by a daughter, Virginia Ayers Bradford of Winter Garden, Florida; a son, Thomas William Ayers of Hopkinton, New Hampshire; sisters, Rebecca Hatten of Petal,
Mississippi, and Mary Virginia Grubbs of New Iberia, Louisianna; eight grandchildren; and 13 great-grandchildren.
Courtesy of Find A Grave Contributor Ed Burkett (47498876)
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As A Missionary, She Spent Many Years Inside China
OBITUARIES
Saturday, May 10, 1997|By Sherri M. Owens of The Sentinel Staff
Winnie Bennett Ayers of Winter Garden believed in the power of teaching. She shared her knowledge of English and Christianity in the United States and abroad.
Born in Hattiesburg, Mississippi on January 22, 1898, daughter of William Alexander Bennett and Corinne Estelle Dobbins Bennett. Mrs. Ayers was an active member of the First Baptist Church of Winter Garden, Florida and is best remembered for her missionary work in China. She died Friday (May 9, 1997). She was 99.
After finishing classes at the Carver School of Missions and Social Services in Louisville, Kentucky, she left for China in July 1921 to teach English for the Southern Baptist Foreign Mission Board. Later that year she married fellow teacher Sanford Emmett Ayers.
She continued her mission work, teaching at four schools in Shandong and Henan provinces. The couple returned to the United States so he could begin medical studies, then went back to China to continue their work.
The two were forced to leave in 1939 because of the Sino-Japanese war. When that war and World War II were over, they returned to China and remained until the Chinese Communist victory was imminent in 1949.
Six years later, they settled in Winter Garden, Florida where her husband, a physician in town, he died in 1968.
Mrs. Ayers is survived by a daughter, Virginia Ayers Bradford of Winter Garden, Florida; a son, Thomas William Ayers of Hopkinton, New Hampshire; sisters, Rebecca Hatten of Petal,
Mississippi, and Mary Virginia Grubbs of New Iberia, Louisianna; eight grandchildren; and 13 great-grandchildren.
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