Harry LeRoy Turner
1935 - 2007
The funeral for Harry LeRoy Turner, 411 E. Fourth Ave., will be at 10 a.m. Tuesday in Roberts-Blue-Barnett Funeral Home chapel. The Rev. Jim Grimmett of Emporia and the Rev. George Boesche of the Cottonwood Friends Church will conduct the service. Burial, with services conducted by Lowry-Funston Post 1980 and American Legion Ball-McColm Post 5, will be in Cottonwood Cemetery, west of Emporia. The family will meet friends from 6 to 8 p.m. today at the funeral home.
The family suggests that, instead of flowers, memorial contributions to the Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks for use in the Council Grove area or to the Cottonwood Cemetery Association be sent in care of the funeral home, P.O. Box 175, Emporia, KS.
Mr. Turner died Thursday, Oct 4, 2007, at Galachia Heart Hospital in Wichita.
He was a contractor in Emporia for 30 years and the past five years had worked at Sutherland’s. He was a veteran of the U.S. Navy and the National Guard.
The son of Theodore and Madelyn Reeder Turner, he was born April 22, 1935, at Council Grove. He married Maybell Brockelman on Jan. 8, 1956, at Emporia. She survives.
Mr. Turner was a member of the Cottonwood Friends Church. He was a Scout leader with Boy Scout Troop 165 and also was active in the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and the Rebekah Assembly. For many years, Mr. Turner was the sexton of Cottonwood Cemetery. He was a member of American Legion Ball-McColm Post 5, Veterans of Foreign Wars Lowry-Funston Post 1980 and the Early Bird Optimist Club.
He is also survived by two sons, Willie Turner of Emporia and Geary Turner of Wichita; one daughter, Denise Wolford of Emporia; one brother, Kenneth Turner of Canton; six sisters, Doris Hight of Council Grove, Velma Myers of Nickerson, Melba Gray and Viola Holler, both of Galva, Alberta Wright of Wichita and Maxine Wells of Yakima, Wash.; and four grandchildren. He was preceded in death by one sister, Bernice Henderson, and three brothers, Theodore Turner Jr., Delbert Turner and Roland Turner.