Ellen E. Grund, GW #161

Ellen was born on 31 July 1907 in Massachussetts to Richard and Lillian Grund who immigrated from Sweden in 1902.  Ellen and her sister with their parents were in Cleveland, Ohio in time for the 1910 census where Richard is working as a machinist in an auto factory.  In 1920 the family is still living in Ohio where Richard is working in a dye factory.  According to an article in the 14 June 1952 issue of the Gospel Herald, Ellen entered the Gospel Worker Society in October 1928.  Ellen appears twice in the 1930 census: in Pittsburgh with several other Gospel Workers, and also in Cleveland with her family where her occupation is listed as “missionary, Gospel Church.”  Where she is for the 1940 and the 1950 census remains a mystery, but it appears Ellen stayed with the Gospel Worker Society.  According to the same 1952 article in the Gospel Herald, because of a physical handicap, Ellen had to leave the daily work of distributing Gospel Heralds in Pittsburgh where she also visited the sick, read to them, and prayed with them.  She moved to Cleveland where she assisted in Miss M. E. Musselman’s office and also assisted in the Gospel Worker Society chapel.  Ellen died on 26 October 1966 and is buried in the Brooklyn Heights cemetery in Cleveland with other Gospel Workers.