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Kind, supportive Jean devoted her life to education
Former Church of Scotland missionary Jean Wilkinson has died at the age of 89.Born on March 28, 1919, in Calcutta, India, Jean Wilkinson devoted much of her life to the education of children overseas.
The Church was to play a pivotal role in shaping her life from the day she was born to George and Agnes Ewan.
Her father was a professor of philosophy at the Scottish Churches College in Calcutta, and her mother was a teacher.
Jean was educated at George Watson's Ladies College and went on to study maths at Edinburgh University. She then trained as a teacher at Moray House.
Opportunities were opening up for teacher training in Kenya and she was appointed by the Woman's Foreign Missions Committee of the Church of Scotland to go and work there.
Full story at the Edinburgh Evening News.
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