Anna Isabel Fox
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Anna Isabel Fox | |
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 Anna Isabel Fox, from a 1918 publication. | |
| Born | 1890 |
| Died | 1974 (aged 83–84) |
| Other names | Isabel Fox, Anna F. Smith (after marriage in 1925) |
| Occupations | Educator, Christian missionary in the Philippines |
| Spouse | Floyd Olin Smith |
Anna Isabel Fox (1890 – 1974), later Anna F. Smith, was an American educator and a Christian missionary in the Philippines.
Anna Isabel Fox was raised in Albuquerque, New Mexico, the middle daughter of Rufus P. Fox and Anna B. Fox. Her father was a builder.[1] She trained as a teacher at the University of New Mexico, graduating in 1910.[2] In 1918, she completed further training at a Bible institute in New York, in preparation for overseas mission work.[3]
Career
Fox taught at a missionary school in San Rafael, New Mexico as a young woman. In 1918, she was appointed by the Woman's Board of Missions to work as a missionary teacher in the Philippines.[3]
Fox served in the Philippines for eight years, from 1918 to 1927, as founder and first principal of a women's Bible school and dormitory in Cagayan province.[4] "I am so glad I am here," she wrote in 1919. "It is such a beautiful place and the people are so charming and give such great promise."[5] In 1922, she wrote, "The days grow more and more busy, and the more busy they are, the happier I am."[6] Her sisters Florence Lesley Fox, a nurse, and Grace Evelyn Fox, an educator, followed her into mission work in the Philippines, in 1920 and 1923 respectively.[7] She lectured on her work in the United States during a furlough in 1924 and 1925.[8][9]
