DEATH OF SISTER BUTTON

Southland Times, Issue 24233, 17 September 1940, Page 8

DEATH OF SISTER BUTTON

VICTIM OF AIR RAID ON LONDON (United Press Association)

AUCKLAND, September 16. Cabled advice has been received in Auckland of the death in an air raid lon London on August 30 of Sister I Lenna Button, formerly of the Methodist Central Mission at Auckland. Sister 'Button was in England on the outbreak of wai' and offered her services to the Women’s Auxiliary Air Force, in which she was medical orderly. She was about 35 years old. The daughter of 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 the institution she worked for a time at St. Alban’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 years 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 left New Zealand in 1939 to fur-’ ther her experience in welfare work and was studying at an English college when war began.