Turner, Hazel

Full NameTURNER, Rev Hazel Ethel (Sr Hazel) Last edited by: Andrew Smith

Date of Birth12 December 1914 Last edited by: Andrew Smith

Date of Death20 January 1997 Last edited by: Andrew Smith

Biography

born 12 December 1914 Napier
- daughter of Herbert John TURNER and Charlotte NOONE (married 1910)
- brother of Rev Harold Walter TURNER
died 20 January 1997 at home in Havelock North.

Educated at Napier Girl’s High School then a year in a commercial college.
Entered a clerical career. Heavily involved with the Young Women’s Bible Class Movement.
Experienced the Hawkes Bay earthquake of 1931 and experienced first-hand the family and community trauma at the time.
Deaconess College 1946-1948 — paid for her own tuition and board for the last two years of her training.

Deaconess First Church Dunedin — appointed 10 January 1949

Ordained Deaconess 14 September 1949

Deaconess, St Andrews, Palmerston North 1954 — resigned 31 July 1958 to look after her mother.

Editor of the ‘Harvest Field’ February 1960 to December 1963 — she made significant changes in format and appeal. She did the editing, proof reading, and often wrote much of it herself.
Presbyterian Support Services Association, Assistant Secretary, Hawkes Bay 1 August 1961

Deaconess St Andrew’s, Waipukurau, Hawkes Bay 19 November 1970
Ordained Assistant Minister, Waipukurau 6 April 1975 — retired 21 January 1980

“Her first appointment was to First Church Dunedin where she served for six years. Whilst [the parish paid for a telephone for her] little else was met by the parish except a tram pass. Thus the Deaconess had to walk and mostly had to work on her own with little or no professional support.
Ordained as a minister of the Word and Sacrament on 6 April 1975. Her preaching was always thoughtful, her sermons well prepared and most acceptable. She was a lady of culture, with many interests. Her home and garden were always in immaculate condition consistent with her meticulous attention to detail in all other aspects of her life.” (from Obituary) Last edited by: Andrew Smith

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