Turner, Marjorie E.

N.Z.B.M.S. Missionary, East Pakistan/India, 1944-1958. Home church Mt Albert. Trained at N.S.W. Baptist Theological College, Sydney. An experienced nurse, Miss Turner accompanied Dr Nola Ivory on medical expeditions into the interior of Tripura state. She gave lectures on nursing and taught Sunday School in Agartala. Her outstanding contribution, however, was in the development and translation of literature into the Lushai language; work she continued long after returning home to New Zealand. Ref.: NZB December 1957, 292.