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Subject: [MSNEWTON] Marjorie Bullard Turner
Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2002 08:43:36 EST

Subj: Marjorie Bullard Turner
Date: 03/21/2002 2:39:52 PM Central Standard Time
From:    (Nancy Grogan)
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If you think it appropriate, would you please send this to the Newton county
List for me? Thank you,
Nancy Grogan

 
Clarion Ledger, Jackson, MS. March 19, 2002
Marjorie Bullard Turner, 87, a retired teacher for the Mississippi State
School for the Blind, died of Alzheimer's Sunday, March 17, 2002 at Myles
Retreat Home.  Visitation is 6-8 p.m. today at Wright and Ferguson Funeral
Home in Ridgeland.  Graveside services are 11 a.m. Wednesday in French Camp
Cemetery in Choctaw County.
 
Mrs. Turner was born in Conehatta in 1914. She was educated at East Central
Mississippi Junior College and earned a BS degree from the University of
Southern Mississippi in 1936 with a double major in Home Economics and
Science.  She taught these and various other subjects during her career.
 
Mrs. Turner was the widow of the late Eric Larkin Turner of Jackson to whom
she was married for 63 years.  She was an avid student of the Bible and was
an active member of Riverside Independent Methodist Church where she taught
Sunday School.
 
Mrs. Turner is survived by one daughter, Mrs. Nancy Grogan and her husband,
Bill Grogan of Canton.  They have two married children, Mrs. Allison Grogan
Crews and Jim Crews of Canton and Nolen Grogan Jr. and Julie Grogan of North
Richland Hills, Texas.  Her family also includes two great-grandsons, Jake
Crews and Turner Crews and a great-granddaughter, Berkley Caroline Grogan. 
Other survivors are her sister, Mrs. Lanie Vincent of Carthage and brother,
Joe Bullard of New Jersey.

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