Stina Mårtensson | |
Birth Date: | 3 June 1882 |
Birth Place: | Ovanåker, Hälsingland |
Death Date: | 1962 |
Death Place: | Sweden |
Stina Mårtensson (3 June 1882 – 1962) was a Swedish missionary. She served with the Swedish Missionary Society in Chinese Turkestan (present day Xinjiang) and India.
Mårtensson was born in Ovanåker in Hälsingland, Sweden. She worked as a nurse midwife in Yarkand[1] and Kashgar for more than 22 years in various periods during the years 1907–1936. In the 1930s she worked with other missionaries to offer vocational training in farmwork.[2]
From 1939 until 1946 she worked in India. She died in Sweden 1962 at the age of 80.