Susan Norris Fitkin
| Susan Norris Fitkin | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Susanah W. Norris March 31, 1870 Ely, Quebec, Canada |
| Died | October 18, 1951 (aged 81) Oakland, California, U.S. |
| Other names | Susie Norris, Susie Fitkin, S.N. Fitkin, |
| Occupation | ordained minister, pastor, evangelist, missionary society president |
| Years active | 1893-1948 |
| Spouse(s) | Abram Fitkin (1896-1933) |
Susan Norris Fitkin (March 31, 1870 – October 18, 1951) was a Canadian ordained minister, who served successively in the Society of Friends, the Association of Pentecostal Churches of America, and finally in the Church of the Nazarene. Fitkin was the founder and first president of the Church of the Nazarene's Women's Foreign Missionary Society (now Nazarene Missions International) from September 1915 until her retirement in June 1948. Fitkin served twenty-four years on the General Board of the Church of the Nazarene. In 1924 Fitkin and her husband Abram Fitkin funded and founded the Fitkin Memorial Hospital in Manzini, Swaziland, and also funded and founded Nazarene Bible Training Schools in China, and Beirut, Lebanon,
Susanah W. "Susie" Norris was born March 31, 1870 on a farm in Ely, Quebec, Canada), the fourth oldest of the nine children of John Norris (born June 25, 1835 in Russelltown, Châteauguay, Quebec, Canada East; died December 20, 1887 in East Farnham, Quebec, Canada), a farmer and the foreman of a lumber camp, and his wife, Susannah Townsend Hall (born March 16, 1834 in East Farnham, Quebec, Canada East; died March 28, 1918 in Cliftondale, Massachusetts). John Norris and Susannah Hall were married on April 10, 1855 in Farnham East. Her siblings were George Miron Norris (born July 1, 1859 in East Farnham, Quebec), Hannah Norris (born August 8, 1861 in Sainte-Cécile-de-Milton, Quebec; died August 23, 1897 in Shefford, Quebec), Annie Louise Norris (born May 2, 1865 in Sainte-Cécile-de-Milton, Quebec), Jane "Janie" May Norris (born March 4, 1872 in Sainte-Cécile-de-Milton, Quebec), John Milton "Johnny" Norris (born November 15, 1873 in Sainte-Cécile-de-Milton, Quebec), Emma Norris (born April 11, 1875 in Quebec, Canada), Charles Newel Norris (born January 29, 1877 in Sainte-Cécile-de-Milton, Quebec), Alice "Nellie" Norris (born June 15, 1880 in Sainte-Cécile-de-Milton, Quebec).
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