Dorothy Kinney Chambers
Dorothy Joy Kinney Chambers | |
|---|---|
| Born | Dorothy Joy Kinney September 16, 1901 |
| Died | December 3, 2001 (aged 100) |
| Alma mater | Denison University (BS) University of Colorado School of Medicine (MD) |
| Occupation(s) | Physician and missionary |
Dorothy Joy Kinney Chambers (born September 16, 1901, Albuquerque, New Mexico[1] -December 3, 2001 Fort Collins, Colorado)[2] was a missionary physician who treated American military inmates at the Santo Tomas Internment Camp.[3]
Early life and education[edit]
Chambers’ parents were Edwin Bruce Kinney, a Baptist minister, and Mabel E. Alger Kinney.[1]
Before Chambers graduated as salutatorian of her class at the University of Colorado School of Medicine (Class of 1926), she earned her BS from Denison University in 1923.[1] She went to northeast India for ten years after graduating to work with the poor.[3]
While there, she met Fred Chambers who was a widowed Baptist minister and they married in 1936. They moved to the Philippines in 1939 as WWII was starting in Europe and Chambers began to work at a mission hospital. When Japan took over the Philippines, Dorothy, Fred and their two young children were sent to internment camps at an Iloilo prison and the campus of University of Santo Tomas in Manila. They were there from April 1942 until February 1945.[3]
They returned to Colorado after the war living in Boulder and Fort Collins. After her husband died, she would tell her story around the country on the lecture circuit.[3] Chambers died at age of 100 on December 3, 2001, in Fort Collins, Colorado.[4][5]
Publications about Chambers[edit]
- Pullen, L. (1999). "Dorothy Kinney Chambers: a most valiant woman". Am Baptist Q. Vol. 18, no. 4. pp. 389–95. PMID 21174919.
- Schwaner, Mary; Hawk, Bobbi Chambers (2018). Courage in a White Coat. CreateSpace. ISBN 978-1719542654.
References[edit]
- ^ a b c "Dr. Dorothy Joy Kinney Chambers". University of Colorado School of Medicine. Retrieved September 10, 2022.
- ^ Schwaner, Mary. "Chronology". Author Mary Scwaner. Retrieved September 10, 2022.
- ^ a b c d "Book focuses on trailblazing Colorado missionary physician". The Gazette. Associated Press. December 28, 2018. Retrieved September 10, 2022.
- ^ "Former missionary Dorothy Chambers dies at 100". American Baptist News Service. December 11, 2001 – via Worldwide Faith News archives.
- ^ "Dorothy K. Chambers (obituary)". Fort Collins Coloradoan. December 5, 2001. p. 10 – via Newspapers.com.
Dorothy K. Chambers, 100, of Fort Collins, died Monday, Dec. 3, 2001. A memorial service was held Tuesday at the American Baptist Church. Bohlender Funeral Chapel is handling the arrangements. Survivors include a son, Robert Chambers; a daughter, Carol Park; and four grandchildren.
- 1901 births
- People from Albuquerque, New Mexico
- University of Colorado School of Medicine alumni
- 20th-century American physicians
- 21st-century American women physicians
- 21st-century American physicians
- Denison University alumni
- Physicians from New Mexico
- Baptist missionaries from the United States
- Baptist missionaries in India
- Baptist missionaries in the Philippines
- 2001 deaths