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José Maria (‘Jack’) Braga

Florence Meeker was born in Cook, Illinois in 1905.

She married Erwin Raetz and they had two children.

Erwin Raetz was born in 1898 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin USA.  He trained in the ministry and was ordained.

He married Florence Meeker and they had two children.

Elizabeth Howard was born in Minneapolis USA in 1912 and grew up as a daughter of missionaries.  Her father was a professor in the geology department of the University of Minnesota.  When she was five the family moved to China where her father lectured at Canton Christian College for 10 years.

Born in England (1913) but raised in Canada, Verent Mills gave up a promising career as a diesel engineer to became a missionary (with a heart for children) to south China in 1931.  Desperately lonely, he cabled his fiancee Alma Kenney back home, and invited her to join the work.  She came straight out, they married in 1932 and continued the work, at the same time raising a family there.   Together they started

Lula Bell Hough was an American missionary (born 1906) who was ordained by the Assemblies of God in 1929 and, aged 23, left her comfortable life in America to go to Guangzhou, South China, to preach the gospel in a previously unreached area.

An American merchant and writer. Travelled to China in 1824. Employed by Thomas H. Smith and Son and later joined Russell and Company. Worked and lived in Canton and saw first hand the beginnings of the Opium War.

He penned "The Fan Kwae at Canton Before Treaty Days, 1825-1844" by an Old Resident and "Bits of Old China".

Appointed Assistant Superintendent of the Civil Aerodrome on 1 May 1934.

Left Hong Kong on leave in 1938.