PLANTATION, FL (December 13, 2001) – A memorial service will be held January 12 for retired Covenant missionary Ruth Edlund Cederberg, who died Wednesday morning at Covenant Village at age 89.
The memorial service will be at 1 p.m. in the Village Center at Covenant Village. No other services are being planned at this time, according to Covenant Village Chaplain Robert Tenglin.
Born November 10, 1912, in Chicago, she graduated from Swedish Covenant Hospital School of Nursing in 1935 and received an advanced degree in Public Health Nursing before responding to a call to mission work. She served from 1944 to 1957 as an Evangelical Covenant Church missionary in China, Japan and Taiwan.
Cederberg hoped to serve as a missionary in Africa, but was asked by the Board of World Mission to go to China instead. It was a difficult work in China – in January 1948 three colleagues (two missionaries and a doctor) were killed while traveling to a meeting. Ruth was scheduled to attend the meeting, but had fallen ill and stayed behind. She and others were evacuated from the China mission a short time later. She served in Japan for a time where she was part of the Nurses Christian Fellowship before ending her missionary service at a clinic in Taiwan.
After returning to Chicago, she worked as a school nurse in nearby Evanston and was an active parishioner at North Park Covenant Church before moving to Covenant Village of Florida in 1982. She met Wally Cederberg at Covenant Village in 1986 and they married in 1988. Wally died four years later.
For more information, call Tenglin at Covenant Village, 954-916-6485.
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