| Turner, Earnest Franklin 218426 |
| Birth: 02/16/1920 Death: 02/14/1990 Marriage: 01/10/1940 |
| Cemetery: Evergreen (SPC-41-01) |
| Record Source: Lamar County Echo, The Paris News |
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If you copy this information, please cite this as your source: Betsy Mills and Ron Brothers. The Death and Cemetery Records of Lamar County, Texas, ReBroMa Press, 2008, http://www.lamarcountytx.org/cemetery. (05/12/2025) |
| Notes THE PARIS NEWS, Thursday, February 15, 1990, p. 2: "Earnest Franklin Turner, 69, 1803 Clarksville St., died at his home Wednesday, February 14. Services will be held at 10:30 a.m. Saturday, Feb. 17, in Fry and Gibbs Funeral Home Chapel with the Rev. J. W. Sims officiating. Burial will be in Evergreen Cemetery. The family will recieve friends from 7 p.m. to 8 p.m. Friday at the funeral home and will be at the home of Glen Turner, 2025 E. Polk. Mr. Turner was born February 16, 1920, in Birthright, a son of Frank and Oda Rushing Turner. He attended schools in Birthright and married Billie Faye Milsap in Lamar County on January 10, 1940. He was a veteran of World War II, serving in the Army. He worked for Paris Milling Co. for 30 years until retiring in 1983 as a truck driver. Surviving are his wife; five daughters, Martha Spears of Paris, Gloria Holley of Powderly, Sue Lester of Arlington, Sherry Ebbs of Little Rock, Ark., and Fonda King of Paris; two sons, Glen Turner of Paris and Keith Turner of Paris; 20 grandchildren; 16 great-grandchildren; and three sisters, Lillie Mae Sharpe of Mineola, Rosa Duckworth of Cooper and Cora Byarms of Idabel, Okla." LAMAR COUNTY ECHO, 22 Feb 1990: "Earnest Franklin Turner, 69, 1803 Clarksville St., died at his home on Wednesday, 14 Feb 1990. Services were held at 10:30 a.m. Saturday, 17 Feb., in Fry and Gibbs Funeral Home Chapel with the Rev. J.W. Sims officiating. Burial will be in Evergreen Cemetery. Mr. Turner was born 16 Feb 1920, in Birthright, a son of Frank and Oda Rushing Turner. He attended schools in Birthright and married Billie Faye Milsap in Lamar County on 10 Jan 1940. He was a veteran of World War II, serving in the Army. He worked for Paris Milling Co. for 30 years until retiring in 1983 as a truck driver. Surviving are his wife; five daughters, Martha Spears of Paris, Gloria Holley of Powderly, Sue Lester of Arlington, Sherry Ebbs of Little Rock, Ark., and Fonda King of Paris; two sons, Glen Turner of Paris and Keith Turner of Paris; 20 grandchildren; 16 great grandchildren; and three sisters, Lillie Mae Sharpe of Mineola, Rosa Duckworth of Cooper and Cora Byarms of Idabel, Okla." Tombstone is inscribed, "Tec 5, US Army WW II." |
| War Notes Rank World War II Tec 5 |