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| Hie Passing Of a Good Man Ii*j leaves of. his immedjate family to '	______!_	jiwjurn	hjs	going	'iaway,	his vife,
AN APPRECIATION.	j
; On January 21st,	1934, when
jThomus Blanks Turner fell on sleep, /surrounded by loved ones and Lfriends, in the little city of Winns-uboro, Texas, a prominent business iman of that city remarked: ?Winns-boro mour.-s the passing of a man that no one ever heard a remark against.? *	' '
This statement' very forcefully expressed the character of the man. Indeed it could be truthfully said of .him^-?Dksii;d. a man ir.deed in whom is no guile.? .T. B. Turner was the very embodiment of honesty and integrity?: olhing that was the least shady appealed to him, and he always had the courage of his convictions to stand and speak for what he thought to be right; ar.d his judgment as to right and wrong was based on a Christian experience into which he came while young and practiced consistently during his earthly life.
He was well born and reared in Christian home. While Greenville, Miss., was his birth place and his boyhood days were spent in Nashville, Tenn., his young manhood and first business career were spent in Bay St. Louis, Miss., where he left n good name and many friends when in 1911 he, with his family mvved to Texas and with his son R. J. entered the mercantile business, fiist in Jacksonville for two years, th'jii in Winnsboro for 17 years, where he was honored and esteemed as a citizen, a business man and a faithful churchman.
He retired from business four years before his death. For 40 years he held official relations to his, the Methodist church, as steward and Sunday school superintenaeni, and was true to the trust committed to his hands. He was always a friend to his pastor and loyal to the church.
It was the writers privilege to be associated with him as his pastor while in Bay St. Louis, finding him a faithful and helpful official, apd afterwards through association with him by family connection?his ton, R. J. having married iny daughter, Kibbie, I learned moi e of his splendid character.
'Brother Turner lived to the age of 65 years, 5 months and 21 days.
Ei)una (nee Sylvester),one daughter Emily^Xnow Mrs. . G.! ^/'"Cannon) of.Laipesa, .Texas; Ar sons, - R. J. 'of i^Fyler, Texas and Thomas Blanks, Jnl of Beaumont, Texas; four grand children, Bobbie, Marjo and Thomas, children of R. J. and ^ Kibbie Turner, and Mary Ann, daughter of Thomas and Lillian Turner.
All these with many friends were present to say a loving farewell as hii body was consigned back to mother earth'and his noble spirit to the God "who gave it. The beautiful floral offering was an expression of the high esteem in which he was held.
May tke G6d of all grace sustain the sorjQwing ones, and may all endeavor to emulate his splendid life and Christian virtues looking to an broken rcu ioi. in the home of the sojul where no parting words aie si uken.
Farewell my friend and brother? shall meet again?for we know wfceri to find you. ..1
?T. B. COTTRELL, yette, Miss.	j