Covenant News

No Service Planned for Viola Larson

NORTHBROOK, IL (January 24, 2005) - No funeral service is planned for 94-year-old Viola Larson who died Friday. She was one of the last Evangelical Covenant Church missionaries to serve in China.

A graduate of North Park College in 1935, Larson served in China from 1935 to 1940 and again from 1946 to 1951, when she also served in Hong Kong. During World War II, she served in the mountains of Virginia as part of the Home Missions project. Later, from 1953 to 1960, she served in Taiwan.

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