7 volumes. Handwritten diaries. Each approx. 15.5x12 cm. (6x4½ in.).
Collection of seven 5-year handwritten diaries commenced in 1953 by Mariel Jean Darnell (Blaine) of Cottage Grove, Oregon. Mariel was a Seventh Day Adventist Missionary nurse. On February 25, 1954, with other Seventh Day Adventist Missionaries she boarded the Queen Mary out of New York on the first step of their next few years as missionaries serving in Africa, at the Malamulo mission hospital and Leper Colony in Makwasa, in Southern Thyolo District of Malawi. She was married and had two children there before leaving in 1970. Thereafter, Mariel, her husband Dr. Blaine, and their children would spend a couple of years back in the states and then back to Africa for a few years. Dates of the diaries; 1953-1957, 1963-1967; 1968-1972; 1973-1977; 1978-1982; 1983-1987; 1994-1998. The African years were for the most part from 1953-1970
Mariel Jean Darnell Blaine was born in Cottage Grove Oregon on Dec. 24, 1927, and she died there on April 15, 2001, at the age of 74. Her husband Dr. Cyril Delabere Blaine, practiced medicine for over 50 years in the Adventist system. Mission assignments included, South Africa, Congo, Nyasaland, (renamed Malawi), Tanzania and Kenya. He became a specialist in internal medicine and cardiology. State-side institutions included Paradise, Glendale Adventist, White Memorial and Loma Linda University Medical Center, plus the Jerry L. Pettis Veterans' Administration Hospital in Loma Linda and Mountains Community Hospital in Lake Arrowhead, Calif. He opened a private practice in Sun City, CA where he saw patients well into his 80's. He was born My 4, 1928, in Los Angeles, his father was a Seventh Day Adventist missionary. Dr. Blaine died at the age of 90, in Loma Linda CA, on May 28, 2018.
Condition:
Various states of wear; some shelf wear, loose covers, detached text blocks; overall good or better.