VICTIM OF AIR RAID

Taranaki Daily News, 17 September 1940, Page 8

VICTIM OF AIR RAID

By Telegraph—Press Association.

NEW ZEALANDER KILLED STUDYING WELFARE WORK

Auckland, Last Night. Cabled advice has been received at 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 the war and offered her services to the Women's Auxiliary Air Force, in which she was a medical orderly. She was about 35 years old. A daughter of Mr. Edmund Button, 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 institute she worked for a time at St. Alban's Church and was then tvansferred to the Dunedin central mission. Sister Button pioneered the work of the health camp movement at Dunedin, where she spent about three years before she went 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 further her experience in welfare work and was studying at an English college when the war began.