calendar
Catalog Number
2000.17.31Description
Metal, round calendar from India. This 40-year calendar is bronze-colored with a white floral patter around the outer rim. The years 1968 and 2007 appear in the center, in red.History
The donor, Lois M. Marsilje, was a missionary nurse, she collected this object in India where she labored for nearly 40 years, ca. 1937-1974.Lois M. Marsilje, was born in Athens, IL in 1911. Her family moved to Holland, MI in the 1920s. Lois attended Holland High and Hope College. She was also a member of Holland’s First Reformed Church.
Lois studied at Chicago’s Presbyterian Hospital School of Nursing. She became a missionary nurse in India, where she worked nearly 40 years. retiring in 1974, Lois returned to live in Holland, MI. Lois died in 2001. She was buried in Holland’s Pilgrim Home Cemetery.