Ivory, Dr Nola

- bn – d. 1988. N.Z.B.M.S. Missionary, India, 1931-1961. Home church Vivian St. Dr Ivory was the first woman doctor to serve with the N.Z.B.M.S.. She commenced in 1931 in Bengal and in 1933 became Medical Superintendent of the Chandpur Mission Hospital. In 1943 her work shifted to Tripura. From 1949 she was Superintendent of the hospital at Agartala, until pioneering new work at Hachupara, South Tripura in 1958. Dr Ivory returned to New Zealand after an accident in 1961, but continued to practice medicine in New Plymouth until her retirement in 1973. Dr Ivory was devoted to physical healing but saw her primary function as evangelistic, often undertaking arduous journeys into the jungle in order to bring the word of Christ alongside her medical work. Ref.: Obituary: NZB 1988, 15.