Albin Savola

[3] In 1890 Savola started the Finnish Evangelical Lutheran Mission missionary school.

Savola worked at the Oniipa missionary station; as a layman, he was assigned the task of developing cotton cultivation in Ovamboland and fabric production.

After Eedla’s death in 1898, Savola returned to Finland in 1900 and married her sister Maria Nikkinen.

In 1908, Savola transferred to the USA, where he served as pastor of the Finnish Lutheran church in Michigan Covington.

From there he returned to Finland in 1912 where he studied theology and became Forssa parish vicar until the end of his life.