Our dear mother Eileen went to be with the Lord on May 18, 2014, after faithfully serving Him in Japan for 60 years.
Mum first came to Japan in April 1954 as a single missionary with the Overseas Missionary Fellowship. While she was working in Hokkaido, she met my dad at a missionary conference near Towada in Aomori Prefecture. They were married in Sapporo in 1957 and started their life together looking after a church in the town of Shizunai on the Hidaka Coast of Hokkaido, an area famous for its raising of race horses. In 1959, my parents took a furlough to England where my mother was from, and I was born in London on that trip. Within 3 months of being born, my parents sailed for Australia to visit my dad's relatives and supporters, and when all was said and done, the three of us arrived back in Japan in January 1960, and my parents took up a post in the mining town of Akabira in Hokkaido.
My mother was an avid student of the Bible, and a keen soul winner. Even in her latter years, she took a course in New Testament Greek at age 80, and continued witnessing to social workers that came to help her.
My mother loved the Lord, His Word, and the people she was called to reach: the Japanese.
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