Ethel Lindy Mabuce (b. December 26, 1886-d. November 1985) was born near Marquand, Missouri. She was the third of eight children and the third of five daughters. Her father, Hans Hansen Mabuce, was an immigrant from Denmark who, in 1879, married Rosena Münch of Illinois. Raised on a farm in Bollinger County, Mabuce was educated at the rural Hahn School near Marquand and later enrolled at Will Mayfield College in Marble Hill. She attended Missouri State Normal School at Cape Girardeau and graduated from the Chicago Evangelical Institute in 1911 and from Taylor University in Upland, Illinois, in 1916. Mabuce accepted an appointment to serve as a missionary in Burma from the Methodist Episcopal Church in 1916. In Burma, she worked as a teacher in the capitol city of Rangoon and as a missionary in the Pegu, a city in southern Burma, until 1921. After returning to the United States, Mabuce entered graduate school at Northwestern University. She ended her studies in 1923 to marry Chris J. Soelberg, who had immigrated to the United States from Denmark in 1904. They first met in Burma where Soelberg served as a Methodist missionary to the Chinese in Rangoon, although Soelberg is not mentioned in Mabuce’s Burma correspondence. The couple served at a series of Methodist churches in the Midwest before the Reverend Soelberg’s death in 1954. Ethel Soelberg continued to work with young people as she had in Burma and in her husband’s ministry. She worked at a children’s hospital in St. Louis and as a housemother for women students attending Southeast Missouri State University. Mrs. Soelberg retired from those duties in 1972 and entered a Presbyterian retirement home in Farmington, Missouri, where she died in November 1985.