Garfield County Obituaries
George “Mutt” Raymond TurnerDecember 2, 1923 - December 8, 2011 U.S. Veteran |
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 Graveside services for George Raymond “Mutt” Turner, 88 year-old Ames resident, will be 2:00pm, Saturday, December 10, 2011 in Ames Cemetery. Rick Griffith presiding. Services are under the direction of Henninger-Hinson Funeral Home.Mutt was born December 2, 1923 on the Turner family farm northeast of Ames to Alva Lewis and Bessie “B” (Cunningham) Turner and died December 8, 2011, in Clinton, OK. He was raised with two sisters and six brothers, graduating from Ames High School, lettering three years in basketball and four years in football. Following graduation, on August 3, 1943, he enlisted in the US Army Air Force. He did basic training at Buckley Field, Denver and Sioux Falls, SD. He then left on the Queen Elizabeth I for Glasglow, Scotland, European Theatre Operations, serving with the US Eighth Air Force, 4th SAD, Watersham and Hitchum Fields at Ipswich, England, during the Invasion of Normandy. His ship docked in Newport News, VA on September 1, 1945, for his first leave since he enlisted. Four brothers and one brother-in-law served in the US Armed Services during World War II and the Korean War. Mutt was a charter member of the American Legion Jayne-Kennedy Post No. 340 Inc., Ames, with 65 years of continuous membership. He was instrumental in helping establish a Veteran’s Memorial where the old American Legion Building stood in Ames. On August 1, 1950, he married Lauretta Maye Munkres where he farmed and worked in the oil field at Ames before retiring. She survives him as does three children, Sharon Lou Moore, Drummond; Lisa Marie Briggs, Pond Creek; Richard Lee Turner, Enid; eight grandchildren and four great-grandchildren. Memorial donations can be given through the funeral home to the American Legion Jayne-Kennedy Post No. 340 Inc., Ames. |