Purvis, Lamar County, Miss., Friday, September 4, 1959
Mrs. Will Turner Funeral Services Held Friday.
Mrs. Will Turner, 84, died at the home of her son, Claudius Turner, in Boaz, Alabama, Friday, August 28, at 5 P.M. following a short illness.
Funeral services were held Saturday afternoon in Friendship Baptist church near Boaz with Rev. M. F. Freeman and Rev. Reed Maxwell in charge. Interment was in the Purvis Cemetery Sunday morning at 9:00 o'clock with Rev. James Clark and Rev. Lee Lasseter conducting the short graveside services.
Gillespie and Barksdale Funeral Home in Boaz were assisted by Bounds Funeral Home in the funeral arrangements and burial. Pallbearers were Odis Cameron, Walter Matthews, Preston Pearce, Cecil Taylor, Emmitt Harris, Ted Dyar and Joel Johnson.
Mrs. Turner's husband, a former merchant in Purvis, died here 16 years ago, and Mrs. Turner moved to Alabama with her son and his family and had lived there for the past 10 years. She will be remembered by her old friends here as "Aunt Lou Turner."
Besides her son, Claudius, Mrs. Turner is survived by two brothers, Johnnie Wright of Laurel, George Wright of Boaz; two sisters, Mrs. Ada Willis and Mrs. Lexie McCurley of Altoona, Alabama, one grandson, Charles Turner, and 73 nieces and nephews.
Purvis, Lamar County, Miss., Friday, September 4, 1959
Mrs. Will Turner Funeral Services Held Friday.
Mrs. Will Turner, 84, died at the home of her son, Claudius Turner, in Boaz, Alabama, Friday, August 28, at 5 P.M. following a short illness.
Funeral services were held Saturday afternoon in Friendship Baptist church near Boaz with Rev. M. F. Freeman and Rev. Reed Maxwell in charge. Interment was in the Purvis Cemetery Sunday morning at 9:00 o'clock with Rev. James Clark and Rev. Lee Lasseter conducting the short graveside services.
Gillespie and Barksdale Funeral Home in Boaz were assisted by Bounds Funeral Home in the funeral arrangements and burial. Pallbearers were Odis Cameron, Walter Matthews, Preston Pearce, Cecil Taylor, Emmitt Harris, Ted Dyar and Joel Johnson.
Mrs. Turner's husband, a former merchant in Purvis, died here 16 years ago, and Mrs. Turner moved to Alabama with her son and his family and had lived there for the past 10 years. She will be remembered by her old friends here as "Aunt Lou Turner."
Besides her son, Claudius, Mrs. Turner is survived by two brothers, Johnnie Wright of Laurel, George Wright of Boaz; two sisters, Mrs. Ada Willis and Mrs. Lexie McCurley of Altoona, Alabama, one grandson, Charles Turner, and 73 nieces and nephews.
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Robert Simon Meneger "Mim" Wright
1868–1934
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Eliza Wright Collins
1870–1939
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James Wesley Wright
1872–1929
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Samuel Thomas Wright
1877–1956
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William J. Wright
1880–1967
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George Hardy Wright
1882–1965
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Bessie Velva "Velvie" Wright Malone
1885–1959
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Ada Serena Wright Willis
1887–1972
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Lexie Texana Ann Wright McCurley
1891–1979
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