Mrs. Arthur W. Hummel Sr., 79, wife of a former chief of the division of Orentalia at the Library of Congress, died Monday at the Fairland Nursing Home, 2101 Fairland Road, Silver Spring, after a long illness. Her home was at 2406 19th St. NW.
Mrs. Hummel and her husband had lived in China 13 years and she spoke Chinese fluently.
Born Ruth Bookwalter, she married Mr. Hummel in 1914. The couple immediately left for the Far East, where Mr. Hummel taught English in an American Board Mission school iln Fen-yang, and history at the Yenchng School of Chinese Studies in Peking.
They returned here in 1927. For the next 27 years, Mr. Hummel was Orentalia chief here.
Besides her husband, she leaves two sons, Arthur W. Jr., deputy chief of mission at the U. S. Embassy in Taiwan, and Sharman B. of Milwaukee, Wis. A daughter, Mrs. Carol Ames, died in 1956.
Memorial services will be at 2:30 p.m. Saturday at the Friends Meeting House, 2111 Florida Ave. N.W.
The family requests that expressions of sympathy be in the form of contributions to the American Friends Service Committee, 1822 R. St. NW.
--The Evening Star (Washington, DC) 20 Jul 1967
Mrs. Hummel and her husband had lived in China 13 years and she spoke Chinese fluently.
Born Ruth Bookwalter, she married Mr. Hummel in 1914. The couple immediately left for the Far East, where Mr. Hummel taught English in an American Board Mission school iln Fen-yang, and history at the Yenchng School of Chinese Studies in Peking.
They returned here in 1927. For the next 27 years, Mr. Hummel was Orentalia chief here.
Besides her husband, she leaves two sons, Arthur W. Jr., deputy chief of mission at the U. S. Embassy in Taiwan, and Sharman B. of Milwaukee, Wis. A daughter, Mrs. Carol Ames, died in 1956.
Memorial services will be at 2:30 p.m. Saturday at the Friends Meeting House, 2111 Florida Ave. N.W.
The family requests that expressions of sympathy be in the form of contributions to the American Friends Service Committee, 1822 R. St. NW.
--The Evening Star (Washington, DC) 20 Jul 1967
Mrs. Arthur W. Hummel Sr., 79, wife of a former chief of the division of Orentalia at the Library of Congress, died Monday at the Fairland Nursing Home, 2101 Fairland Road, Silver Spring, after a long illness. Her home was at 2406 19th St. NW.
Mrs. Hummel and her husband had lived in China 13 years and she spoke Chinese fluently.
Born Ruth Bookwalter, she married Mr. Hummel in 1914. The couple immediately left for the Far East, where Mr. Hummel taught English in an American Board Mission school iln Fen-yang, and history at the Yenchng School of Chinese Studies in Peking.
They returned here in 1927. For the next 27 years, Mr. Hummel was Orentalia chief here.
Besides her husband, she leaves two sons, Arthur W. Jr., deputy chief of mission at the U. S. Embassy in Taiwan, and Sharman B. of Milwaukee, Wis. A daughter, Mrs. Carol Ames, died in 1956.
Memorial services will be at 2:30 p.m. Saturday at the Friends Meeting House, 2111 Florida Ave. N.W.
The family requests that expressions of sympathy be in the form of contributions to the American Friends Service Committee, 1822 R. St. NW.
--The Evening Star (Washington, DC) 20 Jul 1967
Mrs. Hummel and her husband had lived in China 13 years and she spoke Chinese fluently.
Born Ruth Bookwalter, she married Mr. Hummel in 1914. The couple immediately left for the Far East, where Mr. Hummel taught English in an American Board Mission school iln Fen-yang, and history at the Yenchng School of Chinese Studies in Peking.
They returned here in 1927. For the next 27 years, Mr. Hummel was Orentalia chief here.
Besides her husband, she leaves two sons, Arthur W. Jr., deputy chief of mission at the U. S. Embassy in Taiwan, and Sharman B. of Milwaukee, Wis. A daughter, Mrs. Carol Ames, died in 1956.
Memorial services will be at 2:30 p.m. Saturday at the Friends Meeting House, 2111 Florida Ave. N.W.
The family requests that expressions of sympathy be in the form of contributions to the American Friends Service Committee, 1822 R. St. NW.
--The Evening Star (Washington, DC) 20 Jul 1967
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