Mrs. Thomas Alexander Hearn, editor-in-chief of the Quarterly Journal for Chinese Nurses, is expected to arrive in this section shortly to visit relatives and friends. Mrs. Hearn will be accompanied by her husband, whom she married in China the latter part of 1918, and their three children. She is well-known in this section. Mrs. Hearn before marriage was Miss Mary Jarman of Richlands, N.C. she has been located in China the past six years. Her present home is in Shanghai. Mrs. Hearn was a school teacher n this State and Florida for eight years. She is a graduate of the Normal College at Greensboro and of the University of North Carolina. She also studied at Columbia University and in Paris. She graduate in nursing at St. Luke’s Hospital, Jacksonville, Fla. In 1917 she went to China as an appointee of the Methodist Board of Missions, to take charge of the training of nurses at Huchow Union Hospital, in the city of that name. After marriage she located at Shanghai, where she took up the work of editing the professional journal for nurses.
Mr. Hearn was formerly a resident of Arkadelphia, Ark., at which place the family have stopped over for a visit en route to North Carolina.
From the front page of The Kinston Free Press, Saturday, Jan. 20, 1923.
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