Martin Willard Turner
1917 - 1996 (78 years)-
Name Martin Willard Turner Born 24 Jun 1917 El Dorado, Butler County, Kansas 
[1, 2, 3] Gender Male Died 2 May 1996 Chanute, Neosho County, Kansas [1, 2, 3] Buried Woods Cemetery, Redfield, Bourbon County, Kansas [1, 2] Person ID I1800 Gritton Last Modified 26 Mar 2024
Family Dorothy Smith, b. 12 Mar 1921, Parsons, Labette County, Kansas , d. 18 Apr 2011, Chanute, Neosho County, Kansas (Age 90 years) Married 24 Dec 1939 Fort Scott, Bourbon County, Kansas [1, 2] Divorced 1967 [1, 2] Children 1. Jerry Willard Turner, b. 18 Apr 1941, Fort Scott, Bourbon County, Kansas , d. 27 Jun 2002, Chanute, Neosho County, Kansas (Age 61 years)2. James Holman Turner, b. 15 Jan 1944, Fort Scott, Bourbon County, Kansas , d. 10 Mar 2008, Fort Scott, Bourbon County, Kansas (Age 64 years)Last Modified 6 Jul 2019 Family ID F743 Group Sheet | Family Chart
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Born - 24 Jun 1917 - El Dorado, Butler County, Kansas 
Married - 24 Dec 1939 - Fort Scott, Bourbon County, Kansas 
Died - 2 May 1996 - Chanute, Neosho County, Kansas 
Buried - - Woods Cemetery, Redfield, Bourbon County, Kansas = Link to Google Earth Pin Legend 
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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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