Nansemond-Isle of Wight County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Turner, Eldredge E., 1972 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/va/vafiles.htm ************************************************ ELDREDGE ENNISON TURNER ZUNI - A funeral service for Eldredge Ennison Turner, 54, of Zuni was held Saturday at 2 p.m. in Purviance Funeral Home, Wakefield, by the Rev. J.L. McTeer and the Rev. Erold Lotridge. Burial was in Holly Lawn Cemetery, Suffolk. A native of Isle of Wight County, he was son of the late Jacob A. and Mrs. Rebecca Bowden Turner and the husband of Mrs. Marian Joyner Turner. He was automobile salesman and a member of Colosse Baptist Church. Besides his widow surviving area a daughter Mrs. Mary Louise Popvin of Richmond; a sister, Mrs. Jewel T. Harrell of Norfolk; a half-brother J. Letcher Turner of Hampton; and grandson. Pallbearers were T.M. Carr, Jr., Delmon Carr, A.L. Duck, Jr., N.F. Carr, J.H. Bowden, Thomas Joyner, Ralph Bowden, Lawrence B. Carr, J. Russell West and W.R. Cobb. Eldredge Ennison TURNER, automobile salesman, Isle of Wight Co. native, suicide 24 Feb 1972, at home, Zuni, age 54, interred in Holly Lawn Cemetery*, Suffolk, 26 Feb 1972, "The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Feb. 28, 1972, p. 6 *Holly Lawn list, an extension of the Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/nansemond/cemeteries/hollyln.txt Additional information: His Amended Death Certificate (#72-006418) states he died instantly at home of a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the chest. A photo of his marker is posted at his Find A Grave Memorial, #134535292. His parents are buried in Colosse Baptist Church Cemetery, Collosse. Isle of Wight County Historical Society {IWCHS} Grave Site Survey Task Force {GSSTF} list (#44): http://www.iwchs.com/Cemetery-Reports.html A photo of their monument is posted at their Find A Grave Memorials, #60530937 & #60531049. His father's obit ("Tidewater News," May 27, 1954, Sect. 3, p. 2) is posted at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/isleofwight/obits/t656j6ob.txt Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by Mrs. Bruce Saunders (bs4403@verizon.net), and re-formatted by File Manager Matt Harris. file at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/nansemond/obits/t656e4ob.txt