Alyce Janssen
Alyce Janssen | |
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| Born | 1898 or 1900 California, USA |
| Died | December 10, 1964 Santa Rosa, California, USA |
Alyce Barbara May Janssen (1898 or 1900 - December 10, 1964) was an American Bahá’í who was named a Knight of Bahá’u’lláh for pioneering to Spanish Morocco.
Biography[edit]
Janssen was born in California in the United States in 1898 or 1900 with sources giving conflicting dates.[1][2] She became a Bahá’í at some point and pioneered to Switzerland, Italy, and the Canary Islands.[2]
At the opening of the Ten Year Crusade in 1953 Janssen volunteered to pioneer to a virgin territory to help establish a Bahá’í community as part of a large group of pioneers consisting of herself, Luella McKay, and John and Earleta Fleming. As the group included both black and white Bahá’ís they requested to be sent to a post which accepted mixed race groups and they were assigned to open Spanish Morocco to the Faith.[3] The pioneer group arrived in late 1953,[4] and Janssen settled in Ceuta.[5]
In August 1956 Janssen returned to the United States.[4] She passed away in Santa Rosa, California, in December 1964.[2]
References[edit]
- ↑ https://ancestors.familysearch.org/en/LVM1-32F/alyce-barbara-may-armstong-1898-1964
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 The Bahá’í World, An International Record. (1974). Bahá’í World Centre. Haifa. Volume 14 (1963-1968), Pg(s) 315. View as PDF.
- ↑ Redman, E. The Knights of Bahá’u’lláh, George Ronald Press, London. p 37
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Redman, E. The Knights of Bahá’u’lláh, George Ronald Press, London. p 38
- ↑ The Bahá’í World, An International Record. (1974). Bahá’í World Centre. Haifa. Volume 14 (1963-1968), Pg(s) 315. View as PDF.
