Keith Ransom-Kehler died on 23rd October
1933. (Baha’i News, November 1933) Born in 1876, Keith became aBaha’i in 1921, and
after the death of her second husband in 1923 became increasingly
active as a Baha’i speaker and teacher. In 1929 she
travelled to the Caribbean, and in 1930 began an extensive world
tourto promote the Faith. Shoghi invited her to Haifa in 1932, and
gave her a special mission to go to Iran on behalf of the
American National Spiritual Assembly to petition the shah to ease or
lift the restrictions onthe Baha'is. She stayed in Iran for over a year, but
her efforts were unavailing. Exhausted and in poor health
she eventually succumbed to smallpox, and was buried in Isfahan, Iran, near to
the graves of theKing and Beloved martyrs. Shoghi Effendi named her posthumously
as a Hand of the Cause, and as thefirst American to have
the spiritual station of a martyr.
(Adapted from A Concise Encyclopedia of the Baha’i Faith)
(Please visit Baha’i Heroes and Heroines for a brief description of her life)
(Adapted from A Concise Encyclopedia of the Baha’i Faith)
(Please visit Baha’i Heroes and Heroines for a brief description of her life)
