Ivylyn Girardeau

Ivylyn Lee Girardeau (October 16, 1900 — September 11, 1987) was an American medical doctor and missionary in India and Pakistan.

Early life Ivylyn Lee Girardeau was from Thomaston, Georgia, the daughter of John Bohun Girardeau and Emma Trice Girardeau.

Ivylyn Girardeau attended Agnes Scott College, graduating in 1922, and earned her medical degree in 1931, at Tulane University.

Career Girardeau traveled to India with sponsorship from the Woman's Union Missionary Society (WUMS). She learned to speak Hindi and Urdu. From 1933 to 1945

In the United States, Girardeau served her internship at the Women and Children's Hospital in Boston. "It is the most fascinating country in the world — and potentially one of the most powerful or dangerous," she told Atlanta Constitution readers in 1945. At age 72, she went to Pakistan and India again, as a medical relief worker. There are two folders of papers related to Ivylyn Girardeau's work in the Records of the Woman's Union Missionary Society, at the Billy Graham Center in Wheaton, Illinois.