Reverend Albert Van Etten and his wife Florence were American Presbyterian missionaries stationed in South China, specifically Linchow (Lianzhou), during the 1930s. They served with the South China Mission.
Rev Van Etten was born in California, attended Throop College of Technology, graduated from the University of California in 1922, and from San Francisco Theological Seminary in 1925.
In 1925, he married Florence King of Corvallis, Oregon. They had five sons, Albert, Upton, Thomas, Donald and Paul.
After being assigned by the Board of Foreign Missions, he began missionary work in Linhsien, South China in January 1926.
When the Japanese invaded China in 1937, because of the danger, it was decided that Albert should stay on in Linchow and Florence and the boys should go to their house on Cheung Chau, House #11.
The boys attended the Chi Kung Shan American School, which had its war-time location in Hong Kong. All mail for missionaries in Linchow was being sent to Mrs Van Etten on Cheung Chau.
On Cheung Chau the Van Ettens were friends with the Adys in House #14, see here.
Albert died of typhus in 1939, aged only 39, and Florence and her five sons returned to the USA in 1941, avoiding the Japanese invasion of Hong Kong.
Source:
Board of Foreign Missions of the Presbyterian Church of America, Bulletin 17, Oct 1939.