Replace 'passed away' with 'died' per MOS:EUPH
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| == Death and legacy == | == Death and legacy == |
| Omar Kilborn returned to Canada for vacation in 1919. In April, 1920, he was awarded an honorary degree by [[Victoria University, Toronto|Victoria College]].<ref name=":1">{{Cite journal|last=Hensman|first=Bertha|date=August 26, 1967|title=The Kilborn Family: A Record of a Canadian Family's Service to Medical Work and Education in China and Hong Kong|url=http://divinity-adhoc.library.yale....ersity/Box 279/RG011-279-4406.pdf|journal=The Canadian Medical Association Journal|volume=97|issue=9|pages=471–483|pmid=5340604|pmc=1923254|via=Archives of the United Board for Christian Higher Education in Asia}}</ref> He passed away shortly after, on May 18, 1920, at the age of 53 due to pneumonia. He was buried in Mount Pleasant Cemetery in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Kilborn gained great esteem and trust from the Chinese community through his service, and when the news of his death was spread to West China, a traditional memorial ceremony was held in the local Confucius temple to commemorate him. | Omar Kilborn returned to Canada for vacation in 1919. In April, 1920, he was awarded an honorary degree by [[Victoria University, Toronto|Victoria College]].<ref name=":1">{{Cite journal|last=Hensman|first=Bertha|date=August 26, 1967|title=The Kilborn Family: A Record of a Canadian Family's Service to Medical Work and Education in China and Hong Kong|url=http://divinity-adhoc.library.yale....ersity/Box 279/RG011-279-4406.pdf|journal=The Canadian Medical Association Journal|volume=97|issue=9|pages=471–483|pmid=5340604|pmc=1923254|via=Archives of the United Board for Christian Higher Education in Asia}}</ref> He died shortly afterwards, on May 18, 1920, at the age of 53 due to pneumonia. He was buried in Mount Pleasant Cemetery in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Kilborn gained great esteem and trust from the Chinese community through his service, and when the news of his death was spread to West China, a traditional memorial ceremony was held in the local Confucius temple to commemorate him. |
| Omar's family continued his missionary work in China. Retta Kilborn returned to West China, serving as a staff of the Faculty of Medicine and of the Canadian Mission Hospital for Women and Children in Chengdu for 12 years. His son, Leslie Gifford Kilborn, served as the director of the College of Medicine of West China Union University as well as contributing to missionary work in the [[Chung Chi College]] in Hong Kong. Three generations of the Kilborn family, from 1891 to 1963, served with distinction the cause of medicine and of higher education in West China and Hong Kong.<ref name=":1" /> | Omar's family continued his missionary work in China. Retta Kilborn returned to West China, serving as a staff of the Faculty of Medicine and of the Canadian Mission Hospital for Women and Children in Chengdu for 12 years. His son, Leslie Gifford Kilborn, served as the director of the College of Medicine of West China Union University as well as contributing to missionary work in the [[Chung Chi College]] in Hong Kong. Three generations of the Kilborn family, from 1891 to 1963, served with distinction the cause of medicine and of higher education in West China and Hong Kong.<ref name=":1" /> |
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