Chapter 8
Friends Forever
After a refreshing year, 1963 - 1964, they returned to Ukarumpa and also found great encouragement
from the other missionaries there. Vonnie took to making the house a home again; soon the house and
yard was the flower capital of Ukarumpa, enjoyed by all the center residents. Their yard had bee hives,
chickens and even the first peach tree at Ukarumpa!
Edie Dye and Kerry Steinkraus at Ukarumpa. (Photo Courtesy of Wycliffe Bible Translators, USA Archives)
Kerry too resumed life at Ukarumpa and spent many weekends together with her best friends. Kerry
enjoyed having fun with Edie Dye, Elizabeth Strange, Lois Healey and the other girls by riding horses,
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