Newspaper: The Columbia Tribune
Date: Dec. 11, 1956
Submitters Name: Robert King
Obit: Turner S. Thornton, 67, died yesterday afternoon at his home, 106 North Eighth St., after an illness of several years. He was born in 1889 in Boone County to the late Albert and Eliza Griggs Thornton. He married Meta Baldwin in 1917. He was a member of the American Legion and the Veterans of Foreign Wars, having served in the 47th Rainbow Division in World War I. He is survived by two brothers, Roy, 1004 Madison St., and Ralph, Riverside, Calif., and two sister, Mrs Eva Lee Hardin, Riverside, Calif., and Mrs. Gordon McGavock, Boonville. A son and daughter died earlier. Funeral services will be at 10 a.m. tomorrow in the Memorial Funeral Home Chapel with the Rev. C. E. Lemmon, of the First Christian Church officiating. Burial will be in Nashville Cemetery. Pallbearers will be Raymond Johnson, Owen Williamson, Clete Heibel, Howard Windsor, Pike Hart and Earl Kyle. The body will remain at the Memorial Funeral Home until burial.
Newspaper: The Columbia Tribune
Date: Dec. 11, 1956
Submitters Name: Robert King
Obit: Turner S. Thornton, 67, died yesterday afternoon at his home, 106 North Eighth St., after an illness of several years. He was born in 1889 in Boone County to the late Albert and Eliza Griggs Thornton. He married Meta Baldwin in 1917. He was a member of the American Legion and the Veterans of Foreign Wars, having served in the 47th Rainbow Division in World War I. He is survived by two brothers, Roy, 1004 Madison St., and Ralph, Riverside, Calif., and two sister, Mrs Eva Lee Hardin, Riverside, Calif., and Mrs. Gordon McGavock, Boonville. A son and daughter died earlier. Funeral services will be at 10 a.m. tomorrow in the Memorial Funeral Home Chapel with the Rev. C. E. Lemmon, of the First Christian Church officiating. Burial will be in Nashville Cemetery. Pallbearers will be Raymond Johnson, Owen Williamson, Clete Heibel, Howard Windsor, Pike Hart and Earl Kyle. The body will remain at the Memorial Funeral Home until burial.
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