Ady, Merrill Steele, 1897-1982.

Merrill and Lucile Ady were Presbyterian missionaries in China and Hong Kong from 1923 to 1960.

From the description of Merrill and Lucile Ady papers, 1923-1971. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 702159677

• 1897 Dec 15: Born in Omaha, Nebraska
• 1917 - 1920 : Served in armed forces, WWI
• 1920: BA Monmouth College
• 1923: BD McCormick Seminary
• 1923 Aug 3: Married Lucile Meloy of Evanston, IL who earned her BA degree cum laude at Monmouth and herMA at the University of Illinois. Children: Carolyn (b.1926), Robert (b.1927), Donald (b.1932)
• 1923 Sep 26: Arrived at Canton, China as Presbyterian Church in USA missionary for a year of language study
• 1924 - 1941 : Evangelical work in countryside around Yeung Kong, Kwangtung, So. China
• 1925: Evacuated to Philippines when Sun Yat-Sen made his first foray into power from Canton
• 1928: Furlough - McCormick Seminary
• 1929 - 1936 : Worked under Fifth District Association of the Church of Christ in China (Yeung Kong Station was turned over to CCC in c. 1928)
• 1936 - 1937 Aug : Furlough in Evanston, IL
• 1941 - 1949 : Appointed Executive Secretary, South China Mission of the Presbyterian Church (Canton)
• 1941 Dec 25: Interned by Japanese with Lucile and Donald; Stanley Prison, Hong Kong
• 1942 Jul: Repatriated
• 1943: Attempted to get back to his station, but was stalled first in Lourenco Marques and then in Calcutta
• 1944 - 1945 : Field agent in Secret Intelligence in the U.S. Army Office of Strategic Services in China
• 1945 - 1949 : Worked with Kwangtung International Relief Committee (KIRC)
• 1946: Lucile and Donald arrived in Canton - Donald attended Shanghai American School
• 1949: Furlough
• 1950 - 1960 : In Hong Kong, New Territories for the Sixth District Association of the Kwangtung Synod of the Church of Christ in China
• 1956: Furlough
• 1957: Organized First Asian Church Women's Association. Lucile taught at True Light Middle School
• 1960 - 1965 : In Kowloon, Hong Kong as official representative for Presbyterian Commission on Ecumenical Mission and Relations (COEMAR)
• 1966: Retired to Duarte, CA
• 1982 Nov 2: Died

From the guide to the Merrill and Lucille Ady Papers, 1921-1971, (Yale University Divinity School Library)