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Submitted: 1/2/22 • Approved: 1/2/22 • Last Updated: 1/5/22 • R477981-G0-S3
May 19, 1912-October 2, 1981
*Photo, courtesy of Robert L. Jones
*Information, courtesy of Edith Guynes Stanley
*Obituary
Carl Harless Turner, 69, died on October 2nd in Parkview Memorial Hospital at Wheeler. His services were in the First Baptist Church with the Rev. M.B. Smith of Pampa and Rev. Ernie McGaughey, pastor of the First United Methodist Church officiating. He was buried in the Wheeler Cemetery by Wright Funeral Home Saturday, October 3rd.
Mr. Turner was born in Grayson County. He moved to Wheeler County in 1925. He married Reda Mae Swetnam in 1933 in Briscoe.
He was a farmer and a member of the First Baptist Church.
Survivors include his wife, two sons, Jessie Turner of Quitaque and Dave Turner of Pampa, a daughter, Mrs. Maurita Blackwell of Pampa, two sisters, Mrs. Nova Green of Pampa and Mrs. Lola Smith of Wheeler and five grandchildren.
Pallbearers were Jeff Kelley, Ed Riley, N.L. Sechrist, Harold Austin, Leonard Gaines and Robert Jones.
(Published in The Wheeler Times, Wheeler, Texas, Volume 47, Number 44, Thursday, October 8, 1981, Page 1)
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Texas Death Index, 1903-2000
Name: Carl Turner
Death Date: 2 Oct 1981
Death County: Wheeler
Gender: Male
Texas, Death Certificates, 1903–1982
Name: Carl Harless Turner
Birth Date: 19 May 1912
Birth Place: Texas
Gender: Male
Race: White
Residence: Rural, Wheeler, Texas
Spouse: Reda Mae Swetnam
Father: Jeff Wilson Turner
Mother: Martha Burrow
Age at Death: 69
Death Date: 2 Oct 1981
Death Place: USA, Wheeler, Texas, USA
U.S., Social Security Death Index, 1935-2014
Name: Carl Turner
Last Residence:
79061 Mobeetie, Wheeler, Texas, USA
BORN: 19 May 1912
Died: Oct 1981
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