Tina Quiring
1912–2002
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Mountain Lake, Minnesota, USA
Mountain Lake, Minnesota, USA
Quiring, a mission worker in Congo from 1950 to 1977, died Jan. 30 in Mountain
Lake, Minn. She was 89.
Born Feb. 20, 1912, to Rev. Henry H. and Anna (Schultz) Quiring in Mountain
Lake, she was one of three sisters who eventually found their way to Africa
under the sponsorship of the former Commission on Overseas Mission of the
General Conference Mennonite Church and what was then the Congo Inland Mission,
now Africa Inter-Mennonite Mission.
COM, together with the GCMC Commission on Home Ministries and Mennonite Board of
Missions (Mennonite Church) now is part of Mennonite Mission Network in the USA.
After a year in Belgium studying French, she spent her first two terms in Djoko
Punda, dividing her time between a girls school and a two-year training program
for young men preparing for service in village schools as Christian teachers.
In 1960, Quiring's service in the Congo was interrupted by the violence of
political independence. As soon as it was considered safe for women to return,
she was among the first to go back. She located in Tshikapa, a government and
commercial center. From 1962 until her retirement, her work there focused on the
distribution of Christian literature through a network of bookshops.
She was known to the Congolese as "Mama Tina." People who learned to know her
remember her for her sense of humor and punctuality. Quiring always was busy and
enthusiastic about her work. She firmly believed in the importance of African
believers having God's word written in their mother language.
Quiring graduated from Northwestern Bible and Missionary Training School in
Minneapolis in 1936. She also received a bachelor's degree from Goshen (Ind.)
College in 1948. She taught in the Bible department of the Mountain Lake Bible
School and at the Berean Academy in Elbing, Kan., before her service in Congo.
Upon retirement, she made her home in Mountain Lake with her sister, Anna, who
also had served in the Congo. Quiring continued to type manuscripts in the
Tshiluba language for use in the theological education by extension program in
Congo.
She is survived by a brother, Samuel H. Quiring of Tacoma, Wash.; three sisters:
Helen Sawatzky and Esther Dick, both of Mountain Lake, and Marie Ruth Clevenger
of Lima, Ohio; and 25 nephews and nieces. She was preceded in death by her
parents; two brothers, Henry and Cornelious; and three sisters, Sarah Penner,
Anna Quiring and Elizabeth Clevenger.
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Geschwister
- Henry S. Quiring 1902–1991 Mountain Lake
- Sarah Quiring 1904–1990 Mountain Lake
- Anna H. Quiring 1906–1990 Mountain Lake
- Helen H. Quiring * 1908 Mountain Lake
- Cornelius Quiring 1910–1910 Mountain Lake
- Samuel Heinrich Quiring 1911–2002 Mountain Lake
- Elizabeth Quiring 1913–1988 Mountain Lake
- Esther Quiring * 1915 Mountain Lake
- Marie Ruth Quiring * 1918 Mountain Lake
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