Florence Lesley Fox

Fox helped at a mission school in Cubero, New Mexico in 1905.^[5] In 1920,^[6] Fox followed her sister Anna into missionary work at Cagayan de Oro in the Philippines.^[7] Their younger sister Grace Evelyn joined them in 1923.^[8][9] Fox acted as a visiting nurse, midwife, and superintendent of nurses at the mission hospital, working with her eventual brother-in-law, physician Floyd Olin Smith.^[10] She was also called upon to teach hygiene, sanitation, and music classes, and oversee dormitory provisions, at her sister's school.^[11] "I will not allow the hospital to use all my time and strength," she wrote in a published essay in 1922.^[12]

Fox spoke about her work to women's church groups during her 1926 leave in the United States.^[13][14] She returned to the United States again in 1932, with plans for further medical training in Ohio.^[2]

Fox and her sisters moved to California later in life. Florence Fox was alive when her sister Grace died, in Long Beach in 1971.^[15] Today the Fox sisters are remembered as noted figures in the history of the United Church of Christ of the Philippines in Cagayan de Oro.^[16]