May, Kenneth William (1902-1963)

Family

Kenneth was born in Heamoor, Penzance, Cornwall during 1902, the son of the Bible Christian minister William Henry May and his wife Ellen.

He candidated for the United Methodist ministry in 1920.

He married Catherine Muriel Dymond (1900-1991), a fellow missionary, on 18th July 1928 in K’Un-Ming Shih, Yunnan. They had two children

• Frank Vernon (1929-2019 )  A Methodist minister
• Alan John (1933-)

Kenneth died on 18th May 1963, in Chipping Norton.  His obituary may be found in the Minutes of the Methodist Church 1963. p.207

Circuits

• 1920  Victoria Park College
• 1923   Camborne
• 1925  Tong Chuan, China
• 1926  Chaotong
• 1928  Tong Chuan (received into Full Connexion)
• 1931  furlough
• 1932  Chaotong
• 1948  Stoke on Trent, Burslem Hill Top
• 1953  London Walthamstow
• 1960  Chipping Norton and Stow

He was Chairman of the South West China District in the 1940s

References

Oliver A Beckerlegge, United Methodist ministers and their circuits: Being an arrangement in alphabetical order of the stations of ministers of the Methodist New … and the United Methodist Church, 1797-1932

Missionary Echo of the United Methodist Church

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