Martin Willard Turner
1917 - 1996 (78 years)
Generation: 1
1. Martin Willard Turner was born on 24 Jun 1917 in El Dorado, Butler County, Kansas; died on 2 May 1996 in Chanute, Neosho County, Kansas; was buried in Woods Cemetery, Redfield, Bourbon County, Kansas. Notes:
Fort Scott Tribune
May 2, 1996
..Willard Martin Turner, 78, a former resident of Fort Scott, died Thursday, May 2, 1996, at the Neosho Memorial Regional Medical Center in Chanute. He was born June 24, 1917, in El Dorado, the son of Grover C. and Edith May Hall Turner. He married Dorothy Smith on Dec. 24, 1939, at Fort Scott. He retired in 1976 from the Missouri Pacific Railroad following 30 years of employment as an agent/telegrapher. He was a member of the Uniontown Masonic Lodge; Scottish Rite Consistory of Fort Scott; and Mirza Shrine Temple of Pittsburg.
..Survivors include two sons, Jerry W. Turner, Chanute, and James H. Turner, Fort Scott; one daughter Judy Funk, Chanute; two sisters, Violet Chamberlain, Truth or Consequences, N.M., and Hope Colletta, Brain Tree, Mass.; 12 grandchildren; and three great grandchildren.
..The Rev. Charles Ice, Pastor of the Nazarene Church of Chanute will conducted Saturday at the Cheney Witt Memorial Chapel. The family will received friends at the funeral home before the service3
..Following services, there was cremation.
..Arrangements were made for interment in Woods Cemetery, near Redfield.
..Memorials were requested to be made to the Shrine Crippled Children's Transportation Fund, in care of the funeral home.
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https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/36975260/martin-willard-turnerMartin married Dorothy Smith on 24 Dec 1939 in Fort Scott, Bourbon County, Kansas, and was divorced in 1967. Dorothy (daughter of James Edward Smith and Lulu Ruby, Wiggans) was born on 12 Mar 1921 in Parsons, Labette County, Kansas; died on 18 Apr 2011 in Chanute, Neosho County, Kansas; was buried in Woods Cemetery, Redfield, Bourbon County, Kansas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
Children:- Jerry Willard Turner was born on 18 Apr 1941 in Fort Scott, Bourbon County, Kansas; died on 27 Jun 2002 in Chanute, Neosho County, Kansas; was buried in Woods Cemetery, Redfield, Bourbon County, Kansas.
- James Holman Turner was born on 15 Jan 1944 in Fort Scott, Bourbon County, Kansas; died on 10 Mar 2008 in Fort Scott, Bourbon County, Kansas; was buried in Woods Cemetery, Redfield, Bourbon County, Kansas.