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Submitted: 1/2/22 • Approved: 1/2/22 • Last Updated: 1/5/22 • R477980-G0-S3
1874-1945
Resting in Heaven
*Photo/information, courtesy of Edith Guynes Stanley
*Obituary
Funeral services will be held from the Wheeler Baptist church at 2:00 o'clock Friday afternoon for W.O. Turlington, 71-year-old Wheeler resident who passed away at his town home at 2 p.m., Wednesday. Rev. E.J. Norman, Primitive Baptist pastor of Wellington, will conduct the rites and interment will be made in the Wheeler Cemetery with Hunt Funeral Home in charge.
Death came to Mr. Turlington at 2 o'clock Wednesday afternoon after an illness of five years. A resident of Wheeler county since 1916, the popular farmer lived at Allison for 12 years, moving to a farm southwest of Wheeler. He moved to town a few years ago when failing health forced him to give up the strenuous labors of running a farm.
Mr. Turlington was born in Alabama in 1874 and would have been 71 years old in December. He moved from Alabama to Hawkins, Texas, with his parents while a baby. He was married to Laura Jones 1898 and of their six children, two preceeded him in death. Mrs. Turlington passed away in 1913. Surviving children of this union are: Mrs. Lillia Sorensen, Mrs. Lura Bills, Olney Turlington and Jim Turlington.
In 1925 Mr. Turlington was married to Gertrude Simons and their two daughters, Loverta and Laverne of Wheeler, survive.
After leaving Hawkins, Texas, Mr. Turlington resided in Wilbarger county a time before moving to Wheeler county in 1916.
He was a respected citizen and leaves a wide circle of friends to mourn his death. He has 16 grandchildren and two grand grandchildren. Two grandsons in the services, E.L. Bills, Jr., in the Navy Air Corps, Bernice Sorensen in Japan in the Infantry.
(Published in The Wheeler Times, Wheeler, Texas, Volume XII-Number 45, Thursday, October 25, 1945, Page 1)
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Texas Death Index, 1903-2000
Name: William O. Turlington
Death Date: 24 Oct 1945
Death County: Wheeler
Certificate: 46370
Texas, Death Certificates, 1903-1982
Name: Willian O Turlington
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Gender: Male
Race: White
Age: 70
Birth Date: 29 Dec 1874
Birth Place: Alabama
Residence: Wheeler, Wheeler, Texas, USA
Death Date: 24 Oct 1945
Death Place: Wheeler, Wheeler, Texas, USA
Father: James M Tuslington
Mother: Mc Clinden
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