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From: "Lisa Perry" <>
Subject: [MOMONROE] NBC: Turner
Date: Sun, 30 Nov 2003 11:32:42 -0500

Article from unknown source with handwritten date of Oct 29, 1957.
Extracted from the newspaper article collection started in 1879 by Mrs.
Nannie Brown of Madison, Missouri.



Dr. Turner, Madison's Only Physician, Dies



"Dr. T.R. Turner, 57, osteopathic physician, Madison's only physician,
died at 10:20 o'clock Tuesday morning at the Community Hospital where he
had gone to make his routine morning calls. Dr. Turner became ill a
short distance from Moberly but managed to drive on to the hospital. He
died about twenty minutes after his arrival. His death was due to a
heart condition with which he had been afflicted for a year. Dr.
Thurman Raymond Turner was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Turner of
Herschel, Kentucky. When 12 years old, he and his family move to
Honaker, Virginia, where he continued his public schooling and graduated
in 1918. He was enrolled for three months in a Student Army Training
Corps at Emory and Henry College at Emory Virginia. In 1924, he
enrolled in the Kirksville College of Osteopathy and Surgery and
graduated with the class of 1928. Dr. Turner had his intern training in
Laughlin and the A.S.O. Hospitals in Kirksville. In 1928, he located at
Bristol, Tennessee, next came to Callao, Missouri where he practiced
until July 1931, when he came to Madison and established his office and
home.

Dr. Turner was a Trustee of Missouri Association of Osteopathic
Physicians and Surgeons, also served as Coroner of Monroe County. He
was on the Madison School Board for two years, member of the Masonic
Order, served as president of the Rotary Club. In college, he served as
president of the Alpha Chapter of Psi Sigma Alpha - national honorary
Scholastic Fraternity. He was a member of Madison Baptist Church. Dr.
Turner was married to Hilda Fiedler of Bevier in 1925. Surviving are
his wife; a son, Dr. Thomas R. Turner; a daughter-in-law, Mrs. Thomas R.
Turner, of Kansas City; a brother, Dr. T.M. Turner of Centralia; his
mother,, Mrs. Clarence Turner of Honaker, Virginia; and 2 nieces Mrs.
Edward (Lois) Kesser, Chicago, Illinois; and Mrs. Ramona (Poteet) Oats,
Kansas City, Missouri. Burial was at Sunset Hill Cemetery, Madison,
with graveside services held by the Masonic Lodge. Past presidents of
the Missouri Osteopathic Association served as pallbearers."





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