Wilkes County NcArchives Obituaries.....Turner, Dewey Edgar August 26, 1972 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/nc/ncfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Twylla Turner-Teer teer9690@comcast.net March 4, 2007, 10:09 pm Journal Patriot Newspaper Obit from Journal Patriot Newspaper Wilkes County, NC Date: August 28 1972 D.E. Turner Rites Today Dewey Edgar Turner, Sr., 74, of North Wilkesboro Route 4, oil company owner and many years a merchant died at 3:20 a.m. Saturday at Davis Hospital in Statesville after several days of illness. Born in Wilkes County May 2, 1898, Mr. Turner was the son of Wilborn and Mary Hayes Turner. He was owner and operator of D.E. Turner Oil co., Inc., and prior to establishing that business he operated a store in the Cricket Community for many years. Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Ruby Forester Turner; two daughters, Mrs. Clyde Shumaker of North Wilkesboro Route 4 and Mrs.Clate Snider of State Road; a son, Dewey E. Turner Jr., of Wilkesboro; a sister, Mrs. Arvie T. Bell of Hamptonville Route 2; and three brothers, P.V. Turner of Millers Creek Route 1, Wiley Turner of Hamptonville and S.P. Turner of Arkansas. Funeral services were held this afternoon at Union United Methodist Church with the Rev. J. Frank Herman and the Rev. Charles G. Sherrill officating. Burial was in the church cemetery. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/nc/wilkes/obits/t/turner461gob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/ncfiles/ File size: 1.7 Kb