Mrs. Mary Williams Turner, 64, a prominent Mt. Vernon woman of
pioneer local ancestry and the wife of Edward Turner, veteran Mt. Vernon barber
and barbershop owner now operating the Pocket Hotel shop, died at 6 a.m. today
at her home at 219 East Second street.
The Turners are adjacent neighbors of the Lawrence N. Weintraut Sr., family. Mr. Weintraut
died early yesterday.
Mrs. Williams had been in failing health for several years and
seriously ill since May.
The body is at Weisinger Funeral Home
where friends may call after
Elder Leo Dodd,
Mrs. Turner was a member of Harrow Relief Corps and the American
Legion Auxiliary unit of Owen Dunn post, No. 5. She was a native of
Center township, a daughter of Thomas N. Williams and Dicie Cox Williams.
Surviving in
addition to the husband, are a son, Robert E. Mt. Vernon; a daughter, Miss
Marian Turner, Louisville, Ky., two grandchildren and two sisters, Mrs. Anna
Little, Francis N.M. and Mrs. Ambrose H. Harbert,
Centralia, Ill.
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Originally submitted by Betty Sellers