OBITUARY

Press, Volume XCIV, Issue 28130, 20 November 1956, Page 2

OBITUARY

DEACONESS SANDERS

(New Zealand Press Association)

NAPIER. November 19. Well known for her long service in Anglican Church work in the Melanesian Mission and in Hawke't Bay. Deaconess Isabel Gould Bale Sanders, of Napier, died in the Waipukurau Hospital. She was injured in a motor accident near Waipawa last Saturday. Deaconess Sanders, who was 80. was a trained nurse serving with the Melanesian Mission before she was ordained a deaconess in the parish of St. John’s Cathedral, Napier, in 18 She retired in 1933 but continued limited activity in a voluntary capacity.

MRS JOHN MCINDOE, SEN. (New Zealand Press Association) DUNEDIN. November 19. The death has occurred in East Grinstead, Sussex, of a former Dunedin woman, Mrs John Mclndoe, Sen., better known as the artist Mabel Hill, and the mother of the eminent New Zealand plastic surgeon. Sir Archibald Mclndoe. She was in her eightyfifth year, and had been living in England for some years. Mrs Mclndoe last visited New Zealand in T 952. Mrs Mclndoe was born in Wellington, and was the sister of Mr Alfred Hill, the well-known composer, and Mr Edwin Hill, tenor and operatic star. .

Her husband died in 1916, and she is survived by three sons, Sir Archibald Mclndoe. Mr John Mclndoe (Dunedin), and Dr. Kenneth Mclndoe, a research officer for a tyre and rubber company. of Liberia, and one daughter, Mrs I. Mason, of Edinburgh.