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Submitted: 4/19/21 • Approved: 4/19/21 • Last Updated: 4/22/21 • R410448-G410446-S3
Edward K.
1907-1989
Muriel W.
1909-2001
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*Obituary for Edward
Longtime Borger civic leader Ed Turner, died Friday at an Amarillo hospital. He was 82.
Funeral services will be at 11 a.m. Monday in the First Baptist Church.
Burial will be in Westlawn Cemetery by Ed Brown & Sons Funeral Home.
A native of Kosciusko, Miss., he had been a Borger resident since 1946.
Mr. Turner was the founder of the Ed Turner Agency and a former employee of Davis Chevrolet. He was a member of the First Baptist Church where he served as a Deacon and a Sunday School Teacher.
He was also a member of the Borger Noon Lions Club, a trustee of the Girl Scout Little House, former board trustee for High Plains Baptist Hospital, and former State Director of the Texas Association of Realtors.
He was also a former president of the Borger Board of Realtors, and a former trustee of the Board of Regents at Frank Phillips College.
Mr. Turner also served as a board member for the Borger Independent School District Board of Directors, was a former member of the Salvation Army Board, was a former board member for the American Red Cross and was active in Boy Scout work for 47 years.
Survivors include his wife, Muriel; one son, E.W. "Butch" Turner of Borger; one daughter, Linda Hooper of Wichita Falls; one sister, Lillian Crowley of Lancaster and four grandchildren.
The family requests that memorials be made to the Salvation Army.
(Published in Borger News Herald, Sunday, December 17, 1989)
*Obituary for Muriel
BORGER - Muriel Turner, 92, died Wednesday, Sept. 26, 2001.
Services were at 2 p.m. Saturday in Brown's Chapel of the Fountains with Dr. Winfred Moore, visiting distinguished professor of religion at Baylor University in Waco, and the Rev. Gregg Simmons officiating. Burial was at 1 p.m. in Westlawn Cemetery by Brown Funeral Directors.
Mrs. Turner went to be with the Lord Jesus Christ on Wednesday. She was born July 16, 1909 in Octavia, Okla., to Edward Wilson and Edna Smith Wilson. She married Edward Kelly Turner on Dec. 20, 1930. She graduated from Southeastern Oklahoma College in Durant with a master's degree in education. She was a high school teacher for many years.
She and her husband moved to Borger in 1946. They later teamed together and operated the Ed Turner Agency for over 30 years. She was active in numerous volunteer and civic organizations and held many offices in the 20th Century Club. She taught the ladies' Dorcas Sunday school class at First Baptist Church of Borger for many years. She was a homemaker.
Casket bearers were William Griffin, Jeff Griffin, John Bayless, Mark Dill, Roy Gurley and Levert Gillman.
She was preceded in death by her brother, Lawrence Wilson in 1982; her sister, Ruby Davis in 1995; and her husband, on Dec. 15,1989.
Survivors include a son, E.W. "Dutch" Turner and wife, Linda of Borger; a daughter, Linda Thornton and husband, Dr. Floyd Thornton of Wichita Falls; four grandchildren, Kelly Hooper of Euless, Leah Hooper Walker and husband, Richard of Wichita Falls, Katie Turner Francis and husband, Brad of Borger and Colby Turner of Austin; and four great-grandchildren.
The family suggests memorials be to The Challenge Fund c/o First Baptist Church, P.O. Box 470, Borger, TX 79008-0470.
(Published in Amarillo Globe-News, Oct. 2, 2001)
Contributed on 4/19/21 by neldapat
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