DEATH IN AIR RAID.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 248, 17 September 1940, Page 9

DEATH IN AIR RAID.

WELL-KNOWN DEACONESS

Per Press Association

AUCKLAND, Sept, 16

Cabled advice has been received in Auckland of the death in an air raid on London on August 30 of Sister Lenna Button, formerly of the Methodist Central Mission, Auckland. Sister Button was in England on the outbreak of war and offered her services to tho Women’s Auxiliary Air Force, in which she was a medical orderly. She was about 35 years of age. The daughter of Mr Edmund Button, of Scottsdale, near Launceston, Tasmania. Sister Button was one of a family of five children. Her father is town clerk of Scottsdale. She came to New Zealand in 1927 and joined the Methodist Deaconess Institute at Christchurch. After leaving tho institute she worked for a time at StAlban’s Church and- was then transferred to the Dunedin Central Mission. Sister Button pioneered the work of the health camp movement in Dunedin, where she spent about three vears before she came to Auckland in 1937 to join the Methodist Mission. She was a member of the. New Zealand Council of the Federation of Health Camps. She loft New Zealand in 1939 to further her experience in welfare work, and was studying at an English college when war began.