KILLED IN AIR RAID
MISSION WORKER’S FATE SISTER LENNA BUTTON (By Telegraph.—Special to Times) AUCKLAND, Tuesday 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 at Auckland. Sister Button was in England on the outbreak of war, and offered her services to the Women’s Auxiliary Air Force, in which she was accepted as a medical orderly. She was about 35 years of age. Sister Button came to New Zealand in 1927 and joined the Methodist Deaconess’ Institute at Christchurch. After leaving the institute she worked for a time at the 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 June, 1939, to further her experience in welfare work, and was studying at an English college when the war began.
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Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21220, 17 September 1940, Page 7
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192KILLED IN AIR RAID Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21220, 17 September 1940, Page 7
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