Hunt Co., TX - Obits: John Ellis Turner
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John Ellis Turner
    John Ellis Turner, 54, of Abernathy, died in a Greenville hospital at 11:10
PM, Monday, January 9, 1967.
    Funeral services were held at 2:00 PM Wednesday, January 11, 1967, in the
Celeste Methodist Church.  Officiating were the Rev. H. B. Coggin of Dallas and
the Rev. Conrad Ryan of Abernathy.  Burial as made in the Celeste Cemetery.
    Mr. Turner was born on April 13, 1912, in Celeste, the son of Frank Turner
and Nannie Moore Turner.  He was married to Lou Jackson on October 27,1939.
Mr. Turner lived the past fourteen years in Abernathy and lived in Roswell, New
Mexico, and Lubbock.  He spent his young life in Hunt County.
    A member of the First Methodist Church of Abernathy, Mr. Turner served as
manager of the Abernathy Gin Company.
    Survivors include his widow of Abernathy; one son, Terry Turner, a student
at Texas Technological College; three brothers, Dan Tatum of Paris, Virge Tatum
of Celeste, and W. H. Tatum of Oklahoma City; two sisters, Mrs. Harold
Armstrong of Celeste and Mrs. J. F. Fielder of Tyler; several nieces and
nephews and other relatives.
    Nephews served as pallbearers.
(January 13, 1967, The Celeste Courier)