Sex
Male
Status
Deceased
The Reverend Albert Kato Reiton was an American Protestant missionary.
He married Edna Greer Reiton on November 15, 1909 and the next month they founded the South China Peniel Holiness Mission in Hong Kong. Edna Greer died in Kobe en route to the USA for medical treatment in January 1912 and in January 1913 Reiton married Rose Etta Femmer. The couple returned to Hong Kong in March to work as evangelists. In November 1914 they opened the Yaumati Peniel Misson in Kowloon.
Reiton and his wife were in Kowloon with their daughter, her husband Robert Hammond, and their grandaughter Edith during the 1941 hostilities. After a period spent in hiding the family were interned in Stanley Camp and repatriated in late June 1942.
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Albert Kato Reiton
1930s Diary extracts of the Reiton's church and family life in Hong Kong can be read below:
1. Year 1930
2. Year 1931
3. Year 1932
4. Year 1933
5. Year 1934
Source: Voices of China and Asia
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In 1942, the family returned to the United States on the Gripsholm. Their arrival was mentioned in the newspaper link below and their connection to Alaska. After repatriation, Albert Reiton would go on speaking tours and describe their experiences in a Japanese internment camp (Stanley).
Albert Reiton passed away in December 1980 in Meade County, South Dakota. He was aged 98.
Obituary/Memorial: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/117131358/albert-kato-reiton
Source
1. The Daily Alaska Empire dated 28 August 1942. See here