Methodist missionary to Burma (now Myanmar) and India, born on 4 March 1910. Her parents, William Owen and Jane Mackley, were Londoners, who moved on marriage first to Suffolk and then to Bradford where William worked for the council. Dorothy was born in Bradford and baptised at Richmond Terrace Wesleyan Methodist chapel. She attended Hanson Girls’ Grammar School and then Furzedown Training College, Tooting, initially returning to Bradford to teach. Subsequently she trained as a missionary at Kingsmead College, Selly Oak, and in March 1940 sailed for Burma in a wartime convoy. In Upper Burma she was a teacher, including teacher training. In early 1942, with the threat of a Japanese invasion, she first moved to Monywa and then to India, working at Madras and Trichinopoly before returning to England. After the war she returned to Burma. Twenty year later she moved to Halifax to nurse her mother and brothers. After their deaths she again returned to India, before retiring in 1970 to Halifax, where she died in 1985.

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