Kimble County, TX - Obituaries:  Turner, Mrs. Emma, 1945
Saturday, July 15, 2000

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    Found in the scrapbook belonging to the late Margaret Griffin Harrison, Junction, Texas
                               Name of paper not given

                         PIONNER KIMBLE RANCHWOMAN DIED AT MARFA
 
  Mrs. Emma Turner, 82, wife of the late R. M. Turner, pioneer Kimble County rancher,
died Wednesday morning, March 7th at the home of her daughter, Mrs. C. A. Taylor at
Marfa, Texas.
  Funeral services were held at the Hodge Funeral Home Chapel in Junction Friday afternoon
at 3:00 o'clock with the Rev. Lewis L. Wilkins, minister of the Junction Presbyterian
Church, officiating.
  She was buried in the Junction Cemetery by the side of her husband, who died February 9,
1928.
  The following served as active pall bearers:
  Slator Fleming, J. O. Wright, P. A. Hoggett, Walter Buck, Jim Carpenter, Lewis Jetton,
Ross Beasley and Fred Coleman.
  Mrs. Turner was born January 14, 1863, in Bryan and was married to Robert M. Turner on
August 8, 1878, at Oakville, Texas.  In 1879, the Turners moved to Kimble county and
established their home on the South Llano River 10 miles south of Junction.
  Mrs. Turner is survived by nine children, as follows:  Mrs. Pearl Harden, El Paso; Mrs.
John Munn, Junction; Jack Turner, Junction; Robert M. Turner, Jr., Marfa; Mrs. C. A.
Taylor, Marfa; Joe Turner, San Antonio; Watt Turner, Rocksprings; Mrs. Earl Kerr, Santa Fe,
New Mexico; and Clarence Turner, Marfa.
  The grandchildren are:
Guy Munn, Gay Munn, Ensign Max Munn, residents of Junction but at present all are in the
military service; Mrs. Ray Munn Powell, Lordsburg, N. M.; Major Joe G. Turner, missing in
action in the Philippines; Mrs. Bobbie Nell DeVolin, Marfa; T/Sgt. Cloma T. Taylor; Mrs.
Dorothy Foley and Mrs. Mary Jane McMurtrey, of Marfa; Mrs. Betty Joe Matthews, Del Rio;
Lt. Jack Kerr, Chicago.
(Died 7 March 1945)
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