Ethel Groce was featured in an article in the American newspaper, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, January 23, 1961.
Missionary to Boat People in Hong Kong
Ethel Groce, former St. Louisan, Lives and Works on Houseboat, Ministering to Ills of Chinese
It was inconceivable that somewhere in the maze of junks and sampans of Hong Kong harbor, aboard which more than 100,000 boat-people live, a white woman had established a medical-gospel mission.
But it was true. Aboard the blue-hulled, double-storied Chung Kwong, or Faithful Light, in its modern white dispensary, I found Ethel Groce of St. Louis, medical-missionary of the Oriental Boat Missions.
I wandered out to the open deck in the bow of the Faithful Light, and through the open windows of the adjoining school-boat, the Proclaiming Light, I saw the crowded classroom of young children lustily singing a nursery jingle in Chinese.
While she changed her uniform, I inspected the upper quarters: two modern bedrooms with brightly tinted walls, a kitchen with gay curtains fluttering at the windows and a large living room with rattan furniture.
"The keel of this houseboat was laid April 1, 1957," Miss Groce said.
... "The boat was constructed here in the Kowloon shipyard, and was launched June 29, 1957."
"I have a son in America. He is studying medicine at Wheaton College, near Chicago.
"I adopted David Koo when his mother died. Now he is 22, and he will graduate from Wheaton College this year, with honors.
"David has studied for one purpose: to return to his people and help them medically."