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Name: DEVITT, Wellesley William 'Welles' MC (Major, Rev.)
Photo Source: Rhino Link vol 2, no. 8, Apr 2008
Birth Date: 29 Dec 1904 South Nyack, New York
Death Date: July 1978 Tucson, Arizona
First Date: 1931
Profession: Africa Inland Mission missionary. At Rift Valley Academy; chaplain KAR in WW2
Married: In Kijabe 1938 Edith Helen Holman b. 24 Jan 1903 Manitoba, d. 23 Jan 2003 Fairfax, Virginia
Children: Helen Edith (12 May 1940 Nairobi)
Book Reference: Foster
War Service: KAR chaplain
General Information:
Foster - African Inland Mission missionary; on the Education side; in WW2 served as a Chaplain with the KAR in Burma
Wife wrote 'On the Edge of the Rift', an account of missionaries in Kenya from 1930s to 1940s. Publ by Langley, Canada 1992. Edith Devitt Trade Paperback with 299 pages - On the Edge of the Rift is the story of vision put into action. The author and her husband, Welles Devitt, in partnership with African people, planted scores of churches and 140 schools in the South Rift Valley province of Kenya. In 1930, the region had very few churches and most of its thousands of people were illiterate. This story covers the time of Kenya's awakening from this condition.