Turner - John Henry
Source: Crawfordsville Journal Review 12 Mar 1953 p 2 typed by Walt W
John H. Turner, 69, prominent Montgomery County farmer, who had also dealt extensively in the buying and selling of livestock and also of used cars, died early Thursday morning at the hospital in Winchester, Tenn., where he had been a patient since suffering a paralytic stroke Sunday while en route home by auto from Florida. Mr. Turner had been in Mount Dora for the past several weeks, associated with a brother in the Turner Paint and Body Shop there. He had been in excellent health all winter. He suffered the stroke while driving his automobile near Winchester. Riding with him at the time was a youth whom he had picked up as a hitch-hiker. With the assistance of motorists passing by, Mr. Turner was taken to the hospital. He died between three and four days later, having never regained consciousness. Informed of the stroke suffered by her husband and that he was a patient in the hospital, Mrs. Turner left early Monday morning by auto for Winchester. She was at the hospital with her husband when he died. The body of Mr. Turner is being returned to Crawfordsville by Proffitt and Sons. Mr. Turner was the son of Claude and Lillian Hawkins Turner. He had lived most of his life on farms in Montgomery County. He had been prominent many years in the business of buying and selling livestock, principally horses, and more recently he had been engaged in the used car business. Mr. and Mrs. Turner, who had no children, have lived on the Country Club Road west of Crawfordsville for the past several years. Survivors, in addition to the widow, include the brother, Maurice Turner, in Florida, and two sisters, Mrs. Lenora Moffitt of Boone, Ia., and Mrs. Lynn Timmons, 917 W. Pike St., Crawfordsville. Funeral arrangements were incomplete Thursday, awaiting the arrival of Mrs. Turner with her husband's body which will be taken to the Proffitt Funeral Home.