15 Apr 1940, The Cincinnati Enquirer

MISSIONARY

To War Zone Passes.

Became Ill When Helping Wounded In China

Home Was In Wyoming -- First Went To Orient To Start Church Work In 1911.

Rev. Albert K. Whallon, 103 Wentworth Avenue, Wyoming, Presbyterian missionary to China, died yesterday at Good Samaritan Hospital, following a year long illness.

Members of the Whallon family said Rev. Mr. Whallon suffered exposure while aiding the sick and wounded during the war in China. He was cut off from his headquarters in Peking when the Japanese invaded North China three years ago, being forced to detour to the south and return on a tramp freighter up the coast.

It was during this trip that he first became ill. He returned to Cincinnati to regain his health. Apparently recuperated from his illness, he again took up his work in China, only to suffer a relapse. He returned to the United States in October, being admitted immediately to Good Samaritan Hospital for treatment.

He attended Wyoming High School, then matriculated at Hanover College near Madison, Ind. As a result of his scholarship there, he was awarded a Rhodes Scholarship in 1907, while at Oxford University being elected captain of the tennis team. Later he returned to the United States to enter Lane Seminary at Princeton University.

Immediately upon his graduation in 1911, he went to China as a missionary, returning to Cincinnati on furlough every seven years.

Surviving him are his widow, Mrs. Marion Oskamp Whallon; three sons, Harold, Daniel, and James Whallon, all of Cincinnati, and three brothers, Thomas C., former Municipal Judge of Indianapolis, Ind., Rev. Walter S., Newark, N. J., and Dr. Arthur J., of Richmond, Ind.

Rev. Mr. Whallon was a son of the late Rev. Edward Payson Whallon, Ph.D., LL.D., Cincinnati pastor, editor, and educator.

Services will be conducted at the Wyoming Presbyterian Church at 2 o'clock Tuesday. Burial will be in Earlham Cemetery in Richmond, Indiana.