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Leonard and Christena were United Church missionaries to China. Leonard Mallory Outerbridge was born in Warwick, Bermuda in 1900. He attended school in Bermuda, becoming a specialist in tropical agriculture and head of the Department of Agriculture. He obtained his B.A. from Wabash College, Indiana, his D.D. from Queen's University and his M.A. and Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of Chicago. He was ordained by the Bay of Quinte Conference in 1925. He went to China in 1925 for the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions and stayed for six years. In 1940, Leonard Outerbridge returned to Canada to serve as a minister in Saskatchewan. In 1949 he joined the Canadian Navy as chaplain. He died in 1960 as a result of a car accident. Christena Martyn was a high school teacher who attended Queen's University. She and Leonard Outerbridge were married in June 1925.