Born: November 5, 1877, Keokuk, Iowa.
Died: March 24, 1949, Lincoln, Nebraska.
Buried: Swede Plain Cemetery, Stromsburg, Nebraska.
Winnie was the daughter of minister John A. Gabrielson and Charlotta Burke.
A graduate of Nebraska Wesleyan University and the Chicago training school, she was living in Chautauqua, New York, as of 1900.
During her long career in church work, she spent time in Finland, Sweden, Norway and Denmark. On an early trip to Sweden, she organized 29 missionary societies, within a few weeks.
In 1908, she sailed for India under the Woman’s Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and was a regular missionary in the Delhi Conference (including work at Meerut) until 1948.
In the United States, she organized the women in Swedish speaking churches for missionary services, and organized the Woman’s Foreign Missionary Society in Sweden in 1908. She was said to have traveled widely, and spoken in 21 American states.
She succeeded her father as pastor of the Wesley Methodist Episcopal Church, 18th & J Streets, Lincoln, Nebraska, serving in that capacity 1930–34, then for a while after returning from India.