Dorothea Marie (Foucar) Allen was born 27 Oct 1896 in Chinkiang, Kiangui, China. She was the daughter of Ernest Henry Foucar (born 1860 in Deutschland) and Elizabeth (Lily) Stacy Olding (born 1865 in the United Kingdom), who were missionaries in China with China Inland Mission (now Overseas Missionary Fellowship). Her brother’s name was Hans Olding also born in China. She and her brother attended the China Inland Mission’s school for the mission’s children in Chefoo, on China’s northeast coast.
In 1921 she arrived in the United States and in 1923 attended University Hospital in Philadelphia to become a nurse. She became a naturalized United States citizen February 25, 1927. In 1927, she returned to China and spent the next twenty four years as a missionary with China Inland Mission.
Even before Dorothea was out of language school, she was called on to do nursing of fellow workers and the children in Shanghai, site of the CIM’s headquarters. When she received her designation, it was to the familiar scenes of Chefoo, where she had grown up. Her first term, nursing there at the CIM’s hospital, stretched to ten years, with an interlude to bring her ill and aged mother to the United States for care.
Reassigned to work with Dr. Jessie McDonald with hospital work at the Kaifeng, Hospital, just before Christmas in 1939, she was one of those sent to internment camp near Shanghai in 1941 when the Japanese took over the hospital immediately after the attack on Pearl Harbor. Repatriated after nearly two years behind barbed wire, Dorothea didn’t get back to China and the Kaifeng Hospital until 1946. And then it was but five years before the communist takeover meant evacuation from the land of her birth.
Eventually Dorothea found her niche as school nurse at Ben Lippen School in Asheville, South Carolina. There she became a bride in 1968 of fellow staff member and fellow CIMer, Arthur Allen. Many enjoyed the hospitality of their home together over the years there at Ben Lippen School.
The Allens joined the Lammermuir family in 1982. Dorothea suffered a great deal the last years of her life with painful hips. Dorothea was called Home to be the Lord on April 22, 1985. Arthur joined her on April 25, 1992 and is buried alongside Dorothea along with a host of fellow Overseas Missionary Fellowship (formerly China inland Mission) missionaries and workers at the Mellinger Mennonite Cemetery in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
In 1921 she arrived in the United States and in 1923 attended University Hospital in Philadelphia to become a nurse. She became a naturalized United States citizen February 25, 1927. In 1927, she returned to China and spent the next twenty four years as a missionary with China Inland Mission.
Even before Dorothea was out of language school, she was called on to do nursing of fellow workers and the children in Shanghai, site of the CIM’s headquarters. When she received her designation, it was to the familiar scenes of Chefoo, where she had grown up. Her first term, nursing there at the CIM’s hospital, stretched to ten years, with an interlude to bring her ill and aged mother to the United States for care.
Reassigned to work with Dr. Jessie McDonald with hospital work at the Kaifeng, Hospital, just before Christmas in 1939, she was one of those sent to internment camp near Shanghai in 1941 when the Japanese took over the hospital immediately after the attack on Pearl Harbor. Repatriated after nearly two years behind barbed wire, Dorothea didn’t get back to China and the Kaifeng Hospital until 1946. And then it was but five years before the communist takeover meant evacuation from the land of her birth.
Eventually Dorothea found her niche as school nurse at Ben Lippen School in Asheville, South Carolina. There she became a bride in 1968 of fellow staff member and fellow CIMer, Arthur Allen. Many enjoyed the hospitality of their home together over the years there at Ben Lippen School.
The Allens joined the Lammermuir family in 1982. Dorothea suffered a great deal the last years of her life with painful hips. Dorothea was called Home to be the Lord on April 22, 1985. Arthur joined her on April 25, 1992 and is buried alongside Dorothea along with a host of fellow Overseas Missionary Fellowship (formerly China inland Mission) missionaries and workers at the Mellinger Mennonite Cemetery in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
Dorothea Marie (Foucar) Allen was born 27 Oct 1896 in Chinkiang, Kiangui, China. She was the daughter of Ernest Henry Foucar (born 1860 in Deutschland) and Elizabeth (Lily) Stacy Olding (born 1865 in the United Kingdom), who were missionaries in China with China Inland Mission (now Overseas Missionary Fellowship). Her brother’s name was Hans Olding also born in China. She and her brother attended the China Inland Mission’s school for the mission’s children in Chefoo, on China’s northeast coast.
In 1921 she arrived in the United States and in 1923 attended University Hospital in Philadelphia to become a nurse. She became a naturalized United States citizen February 25, 1927. In 1927, she returned to China and spent the next twenty four years as a missionary with China Inland Mission.
Even before Dorothea was out of language school, she was called on to do nursing of fellow workers and the children in Shanghai, site of the CIM’s headquarters. When she received her designation, it was to the familiar scenes of Chefoo, where she had grown up. Her first term, nursing there at the CIM’s hospital, stretched to ten years, with an interlude to bring her ill and aged mother to the United States for care.
Reassigned to work with Dr. Jessie McDonald with hospital work at the Kaifeng, Hospital, just before Christmas in 1939, she was one of those sent to internment camp near Shanghai in 1941 when the Japanese took over the hospital immediately after the attack on Pearl Harbor. Repatriated after nearly two years behind barbed wire, Dorothea didn’t get back to China and the Kaifeng Hospital until 1946. And then it was but five years before the communist takeover meant evacuation from the land of her birth.
Eventually Dorothea found her niche as school nurse at Ben Lippen School in Asheville, South Carolina. There she became a bride in 1968 of fellow staff member and fellow CIMer, Arthur Allen. Many enjoyed the hospitality of their home together over the years there at Ben Lippen School.
The Allens joined the Lammermuir family in 1982. Dorothea suffered a great deal the last years of her life with painful hips. Dorothea was called Home to be the Lord on April 22, 1985. Arthur joined her on April 25, 1992 and is buried alongside Dorothea along with a host of fellow Overseas Missionary Fellowship (formerly China inland Mission) missionaries and workers at the Mellinger Mennonite Cemetery in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
In 1921 she arrived in the United States and in 1923 attended University Hospital in Philadelphia to become a nurse. She became a naturalized United States citizen February 25, 1927. In 1927, she returned to China and spent the next twenty four years as a missionary with China Inland Mission.
Even before Dorothea was out of language school, she was called on to do nursing of fellow workers and the children in Shanghai, site of the CIM’s headquarters. When she received her designation, it was to the familiar scenes of Chefoo, where she had grown up. Her first term, nursing there at the CIM’s hospital, stretched to ten years, with an interlude to bring her ill and aged mother to the United States for care.
Reassigned to work with Dr. Jessie McDonald with hospital work at the Kaifeng, Hospital, just before Christmas in 1939, she was one of those sent to internment camp near Shanghai in 1941 when the Japanese took over the hospital immediately after the attack on Pearl Harbor. Repatriated after nearly two years behind barbed wire, Dorothea didn’t get back to China and the Kaifeng Hospital until 1946. And then it was but five years before the communist takeover meant evacuation from the land of her birth.
Eventually Dorothea found her niche as school nurse at Ben Lippen School in Asheville, South Carolina. There she became a bride in 1968 of fellow staff member and fellow CIMer, Arthur Allen. Many enjoyed the hospitality of their home together over the years there at Ben Lippen School.
The Allens joined the Lammermuir family in 1982. Dorothea suffered a great deal the last years of her life with painful hips. Dorothea was called Home to be the Lord on April 22, 1985. Arthur joined her on April 25, 1992 and is buried alongside Dorothea along with a host of fellow Overseas Missionary Fellowship (formerly China inland Mission) missionaries and workers at the Mellinger Mennonite Cemetery in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
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