Banks County GaArchives Obituaries.....Turner, John Waters  August 1, 2006
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Madison County Journal, 10 Aug 2006
John Waters Turner, 86, of Gillsville, died Tuesday, August 1, 2006, at BJC 
Nursing Home in Commerce, following an extended illness.

He was born in Banks County on January 26, 1920, and was the son of the late 
William Jefferson and May Waters Turner. He was an active member of the 
Masonic Lodge, the Commander of the Homer American Legion, a member of the 
Ruritan Club of Banks County, president of the Farm Bureau, Banks County Tax 
Receiver, an active volunteer for the FFA Club, a retired farmer, member of 
the Cattleman’s Association, and a federal poultry inspector for the 
Department of Agriculture. Mr. Turner was a veteran, having served in the 
United States armed forces during World War II. 

He was preceded in death by his former wife, Edith Poole Turner; daughter, 
Charlotte Harris; grandson, Blake Cochran; brothers, Pope Turner, Byron 
Turner, W.F. Turner; sisters, Mildred Chamber, Jennie turner, Ellen Turner, 
Rose Turner, Avarilla Carpenter, and Margaret Turk.

Survivors include his wife, Frances Lewallen Turner, Gillsville; daughters and 
sons-in-law, Gail and Calvin Johnson, Carrollton, Nancy and Jewell Cochran, 
Ringgold, Linda and Donald Wilson, Gillsville; sons and daughter-in-law, Bill 
and April Turner, Gillsville, Jeff Turner, Homer; grandchildren, Ginger Wall, 
Winder, Tracy Thompson, Atlanta, Shelley Johnson, Jackson, Tenn., Russell 
Johnson, Knoxville, Tenn., Blaze Turner and Casey Turner, both of Gillsville; 
and four great-grandchildren.

Funeral services were held Friday, August 4, in the chapel of Little-Ward 
Funeral Home with the Rev. Bill Calhoun officiating. Burial was in the Hickory 
Flat United Methodist Church cemetery.

Little-Ward Funeral Home, Commerce, was in charge of arrangements.


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