Sophrona Georgia Turner

TURNER, HILSABECK

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Date: 1/14/2015 at 15:01:21

Grinnell Herald, Grinnell, Iowa, April 4, 1922

Miss Georgia Turner

Miss Georgia Turner passed away yesterday afternoon at 3 o’clock following a comparatively short illness. She had been in poor health for some time but had only been confined to her bed recently.
Miss Turner had made Grinnell her home for some time, came here from Lynnville. For the past two years she had lived with Miss Harriet Buck on Summer Street and it was there were she died.
Miss Turner has no immediate relative in Grinnell but a number in the vicinity of Lynnville. Her sister Mrs. Rosa Powers, of Ralston, reached Grinnell this morning.
A short service will be held tomorrow morning at 10:30 o’clock at the home of Miss Buck, 922 Summer Street. Another service will be held in Lynnville.

Grinnell Herald, Grinnell, Iowa, April 6, 1922

Miss Turner Dies

Miss Georgia Turner passed away late Monday afternoon before a short illness. She had been in poor health for several months but her condition was not regarded as critical until a few days ago. She came here from Lynnville and lately has been living with Miss Harriet Buck on Summer Street. Short services were held here on Wednesday with further services in Lynnville.

Grinnell Herald, Grinnell, Iowa, April 7, 1922

Sophronia [Sophrona] Georgia Turner

Sophronia [Sophrona] Georgia Turner was born in Grinnell, August 26, 1882, the youngest daughter of Walter and Martha Turner. Most of her life was spent here in Grinnell, were as a girl she went to school and Grinnell Collage Academy.
For a time, she with her parents lived on a farm near Lynnville. After her mother’s death twelve years ago, her father having died two years before, she came to Grinnell and made her home with her sister Rosie.
From girlhood she had been suffering from poor health, having spent nearly two years in the sanitarium at Oakdale. She bore her infirmities quietly, striving not to be a burden to others. She united with the Congregational Church of Grinnell in 1906. She was a member of Mrs. D. S. Morrison’s Sunday school class.
After a brief illness she passed away Monday afternoon, at three o’clock at the home of Miss Harriet Buck. She is survived by her sister Mrs. Rosie Powers of Ralston, Iowa, by three half brothers Boston Turner of Lynnville and Benjamin and John Turner of Oregon and by three half sisters, Mrs. Phoebe McCormick of Oklahoma, Mrs. Sarah Gould of Lynnville and Mrs. Lydia Height of Oregon.
A brief service was conducted by Rev. E. W. Cross from the home of Miss Buck at 10:30, Wednesday morning, and another service was conducted by pastor of the Friends Church of Lynnville, from the home of nephew, William Turner. Internment was made in the Woodlawn Cemetery at Lynnville.