Obit of Turner, Mary Ellen - Grady County, Oklahoma Submitted by: Sandi Carter 23 Oct 2005 Return to Grady County Archives: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/grady/grady.html ========================================================================== USGENWEB NOTICE Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ========================================================================== The Chickasha Express-Star Monday, 18 July 2005 MARY ELLEN TURNER Funeral services for Mary Ellen Turner, 92, of Chickasha, will be held Tuesday, July 19, 2005 at 10:30 a.m., at the Calvary Baptist Church, with Ron Caudill and Chris Brunner officiating. Mary Ellen Turner was born September 23, 1912, in Fitzhugh, Oklahoma, the daughter of Henry Solomon Williams and Cora Allie Fox Williams. She died Sunday, July 17, 2005 in Chickasha. Mary Ellen grew up in Fitzhugh, Oklahoma and Lela, Texas. She attended high school in Roff, Oklahoma. Mary Ellen met Dee Crowder during her junior year of high school at a barn dance in Roff, Oklahoma. They were married on December 26, 1930. They started their family in March of 1933. She and Dee farmed in Roff, Oklahoma. In 1962 they came to Chickasha, and made many lifelong friends over the years. Her husband Dee preceded her in death in February of 1972. She later met and married William Turner in 1978. Mary Ellen was a member of the Calvary Baptist Church. She is preceded in death by both husbands; two sons: Dee Ford Crowder, Jr., and Ted W. Crowder; and one daughter, Maryann Cline. She is survived by two daughters-in-law; Sandra Crowder and Alma Crowder; 10 grandchildren; 23 great grandchildren; and 9 great great grandchildren. Interment will be in the Rose Hill Cemetery under the direction of Ferguson Funeral Home. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Return to Grady County Archives: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/grady/grady.html