Virginia Landis

Age 88, formerly of Pleasant Hill, passed into the loving arms of her Saviour at 9:20 a.m, on January 13, 2016, after a fall and severe head injury. "Miss Ginny" was born July 19, 1927 in Pleasant Hill, Ohio to the late Omer and Alice Landis. She was the second born of six children and attended Newton Township grade and high school for 12 years. Virginia went on to attend Nurses Training at Springfield City Hospital in Springfield, Ohio where she received her R.N. degree.

 After receiving God's call to the mission field she attended Moody Bible Institute. She followed that by going to Anvers, Belgium to study French and Tropical Medicine. Later, Miss Ginny returned from the mission field to Moody Bible Institute to receive her Bachelor of Science degree in nursing. Miss Ginny also graduated from the Frontier School of Midwifery in Hyden, Kentucky to supplement her nurse's training.

 Ginny served with the Africa Inland Mission (AIM) for twenty years. Approximately fourteen of those years were in the Belgium Congo of Africa. The name of that country was later changed to the Democratic Republic of Congo, then to Zaire and today is the Republic of Congo. During her time on the mission field, she had to evacuate from her station four times, once in the 1964 rebellion where many lives were lost. After evacuation from the Congo, she worked in Kenya, East Africa.

 While in Kenya, Miss Ginny taught the Physical Education classes to senior high girls in Kijabe, at the missionary school for children. In addition she was the school nurse while also working at the medical center at Kijabe.

 After 20 years with AIM, Miss Ginny came home to the United States and began working with CHILD EVANGELISM FELLOWSHIP OF EASTERN PA, INC. She began her service with CEF of E. PA, working as a Summer Missionary in 1955. She later attended the Child Evangelism Fellowship Institute in Muskegon, Michigan, in 1971.

 As a Field Representative of CEF of E. PA, INC., she has served in many of the 25 different counties for extended periods of time: filling in as the county director, doing visitation, raising support, and overseeing administrative details until new workers were trained and established in ministry. She was also the head nurse at Summer Missionary Training School for more than 35 years.

 After years in the mission field and working in CEF of E. PA, Inc., Miss Ginny retired in December of 2015 and was sharing a residence with long-time coworker, Dr. Mable Ruth Wray, in Harrisburg, PA.

 She was preceded in death by two sisters, Elizabeth Wise and Darlene Lummis, and survived by Ondalee Beasley and husband Don, Janice Deeter and husband Don, and one brother, Roger Landis and his wife Mary along with several nieces and nephews.

Funeral services will be held 11:30 AM Saturday, January 23, at Jackson-Sarver Funeral Home, 1 S. Main Street, Pleasant Hill, with interment following at Pleasant Hill Cemetery. The family will receive friends from 10:30-11:30 Saturday at the funeral home. In lieu of flowers the family requests donations be made to Child Evangelism Fellowship of Eastern PA, Inc. at P. O. Box 4375, Harrisburg, PA, 17111.  Online memories may be left for the family at www.jackson-sarver.com

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