Isle of Wight-Nansemond County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Turner, Vernon L., 1959 

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Vernon Turner Rites Wednesday 

  SMITHFIELD - Funeral services for Vernon Lafayette Turner will be conducted 
Wednesday at 3 p.m. in Whitehead's Grove Baptist Church by the Rev. B.V. 
Madison, pastor.  Burial will be in the church cemetery.  The body will be 
taken from the Bullock Funeral Home to the Church at 2 p.m. 

  Mr. Turner, 60, farmer and retired Norfolk Naval Shipyard employee, died 
Monday morning at Obici Memorial Hospital, Suffolk, after a short illness. 

  A son of George Franklin and Anna Purvis Turner, he was a native of Isle of 
Wight County.  He had lived at Myrtle, Nansemond County, nine years.  He was 
a member of Whitehead's Grove Baptist Church. 

  Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Grace Nurney Turner; four daughters, Mrs. 
Thomas Major of Newport News, Mrs. Lee Hawley of Hampton, Mrs. Paul Yewici of 
Williamsburg and Miss Mary Turner of Suffolk; four sons, Vernon W. Turner, 
Raymond E. Turner, Donald Bruce Turner and G. Wayne Turner of Suffolk; his 
step-mother, Mrs. Fanny Turner of Eclipse; a sister, Mrs. J.W. Spady, and a 
brother, L.A. Turner of Newport News; two half-sisters and five half-brothers 
of Eclipse and five grandchildren. 


Vernon Lafayette TURNER, farmer, retired Norfolk Naval Shipyard employee, 
b. 17 Mar 1899, Benns Church, IoW.Co., d. 21 Dec 1959, Suffolk, 
interred in Whitehead's Grove Baptist Church Cemetery*, 23 Dec 1959, 
"Suffolk (VA) News-Herald," Vol. 37, No. 201, Tues., Dec. 22, 1959, p. 3 

*Additional information: 

Isle of Wight County Historical Society {IWCHS} 
   Grave Site Survey Task Force {GSSTF} report #73: 
   http://www.iwchs.com/Cemetery-Reports.html 

A photo of his gravestone - added by An Ashland Genealogist - is posted with 
   Find a Grave Memorial #45384802. 

His father (1857 - 1929) & step-mother are also buried there. 

D.Cert. 32024 (Chuckatuck #335) 


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