About Josephine Foss
Lived 1887 – 1983 (aged 96). Josephine Foss was a British missionary.
Josephine Foss (1887–1983) was an Anglican missionary teacher and welfare worker in Kuala Lumpur.
Foss was active in missionary and teaching work from 1914 to 1983. In 1914, along with Elinor Gage-Brown, she founded the Pudu English School in Kuala Lumpur. She was the school's second and longest serving headmistress for sixteen years, from 1926 to 1942, and the school was one of the earliest to teach girls in English there. believing sports and an English speaking teaching environment created "athletic, happy, healthy and normal girls, far better fitted to take their share in the struggle for existence in Malaya than their less fortunate uneducated sisters." In 1942, Foss was taken prisoner by Japanese soldiers during World War II. She is buried in St. Andrew's Cathedral in Singapore.
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Who was Josephine Foss?
English missionary teacher and welfare worker in Asia (1887–1983)
When was Josephine Foss born?
Josephine Foss was born on 17 January 1887.
When did Josephine Foss die?
Josephine Foss died on 17 January 1983.
What was Josephine Foss's occupation?
Josephine Foss was a missionary.
What nationality was Josephine Foss?
Josephine Foss was British.
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