Thomas Adkins Turner Sr.

Thomas Adkins Turner died Tuesday night, August 4, 2015 in DeKalb County, Georgia. He was born 97 years prior on July 2, 1918 in Hawkinsville, Pulaski County, Georgia to William Horace Turner and Kathryn Pritchard Adkins Turner. He was preceded in death by his wife of 67 years, Elizabeth Ernestine Egart Turner, who died May 3, 2005, and is survived by his children Thomas Adkins Turner, Jr., daughter Patricia Egart Turner Warren of Decatur, Ga., daughter Margaret Ann Turner Oeltmann and husband Thomas Napier Oeltmann of Rockland, Maine, daughter Elizabeth Ernestine Turner Wein and husband James Joseph Wein of Atlanta, Ga., and daughter Mary Kathryn Turner Cavan of Kennesaw, Ga., and thirteen grandchildren and twenty-two great-grandchildren. Mr. Turner is an alumnus of Tenth Street, Boys High and Hawkinsville High Schools and Georgia Evening College. Mr. Turner will be buried at Westview Cemetery on Saturday, August 8, 2015 after 10 o'clock Mass at Sacred Heart Church, Atlanta, Georgia. A Rosary will be led on Friday evening at 7:30 o'clock at Patterson's Spring Hill at Spring and 10th Streets. ALL friends are welcomed to all events.