Sex
Female
Status
Deceased
Maybelle Larsen was a former American Red Cross nurse during WWI. She and her husband, Charles F. Larsen were Seventh-Day Adventist missionaries. They were sent to China in 1926. Her role and responsibilities became heavier when Charles became pastor of the Pioneer Memorial Church in Happy Valley.
During the Battle of Hong Kong, she worked as a supervisory nurse caring for patients injured during the bombings. After the fall of Hong Kong, Maybelle Larsen and her husband were interned at Stanley Camp and later repatriated to the United States in 1942.
Source
1. Biography and Nursing - https://www.ministrymagazine.org/archive/1943/05/nursing-in-time-of-war and https://www.outlookmag.org/union-colleges-army-nurses-of-the-great-war/