Ernie Steury

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Ernest Millard Steury (January 3, 1930 – April 4, 2002) was an American physician and Christian missionary to Kenya.

Steury was born in Berne, Indiana to David and Mary Habegger Steury.[1] In 1948, while attending a church service in his hometown, Steury became a Christian. Though he didn't know it at the time, that decision set his life on a course that would lead him far from the rural Indiana life he'd known.[2] Steury's first step outside Indiana took him to Asbury College in Wilmore, Kentucky. He graduated from Asbury in 1953 and the following year married Jennie Sue Groce.[3] Steury obtained a medical degree from Indiana University School of Medicine in 1957 and began an internship in tropical medicine at Gorgas Hospital, Panama.[4][5][6]

In 1956, while still a medical student, Steury signed on with World Gospel Mission and in 1959 was sent to the organization's mission station at Tenwek Mission Hospital, Kenya. Begun in 1935 as an aide station, the Tenwek facility had grown into a medical dispensary and clinic, but Steury was the station's first physician.[7][8] With Steury's leadership, the clinic developed into one of Kenya's largest missionary hospitals[9][10] with outlying clinics that brought healthcare to the surrounding community.[11][12] The facility attained a global reputation for its work.[13][14][15][16]

Steury died at Avon Park, Florida, in 2002. In 2003 Dr Steury Memorial Primary School was built in Tenwek, Bomet County Kenya in his honour.[17]

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  1. ^ "INWELLS-L Archive". Roots Web. Retrieved 15 April 2012.
  2. ^ "Different Time, Different Place Book Reviews". 14 July 2009. Retrieved 15 April 2012.
  3. ^ "Heroes Of The Faith - In Loving Memory of Ernie Steury". World Gospel Mission. Retrieved 15 April 2012.
  4. ^ "Heroes Of The Faith - In Loving Memory of Ernie Steury". World Gospel Mission. Retrieved 15 April 2012.
  5. ^ "Different Time, Different Place Book Reviews". 14 July 2009. Retrieved 15 April 2012.
  6. ^ "Distinguished Medical Alumni Award Recipients". Indiana University School of Medicine, Alumni Relations. Archived from the original on 9 June 2010. Retrieved 15 April 2012.
  7. ^ "Tenwek Hospital". Archived from the original on 22 October 2012. Retrieved 15 April 2012.
  8. ^ Shealy, Margie. "Dr. Ernie Steury's Work in Kenya Captured in Biography". Christian News Wire. Retrieved 15 April 2012.
  9. ^ "Unity In The Body of Christ". Tenwek. Retrieved 15 April 2012.
  10. ^ Frist, Bill (6 December 2011). "Doctor's Diary, Part IV: Empowering Women In Africa". Fox News. Retrieved 15 April 2012.
  11. ^ Walston, Vaughn J. (2002). African-American Experience In World Mission: A call beyond community. Cooperative Mission Network of the African Dispersion. pp. 107–109. ISBN 0-87808-609-9.
  12. ^ "Missionary doctor coming here for appearances". The Dispatch. 29 January 1975. Retrieved 6 May 2012.
  13. ^ Crouse, Janice Shaw. "Many Are Called, But Few Are Heroes". Town Hall. Retrieved 6 May 2012.
  14. ^ Herridge, Paul (15 September 2009). "Missionary trip inspirational for surgeon's family". Southern Gazette. Retrieved 6 May 2012.
  15. ^ Graham, Billy (2010). Storm Warning. Thomas Nelson. ISBN 9781418560379.
  16. ^ Schilling, Richard J. (June 1996). "Graduating Day at Empaash". The Rotarian: 38–39.
  17. ^ "INWELLS-L Archive". Roots Web. Retrieved 15 April 2012.
  18. ^ Lewis, Gregg (2007). Miracle At Tenwek. ISBN 978-1572932227.
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