Meriam Inez Turner
Lifelong Quinlan area resident, Meriam Inez Turner, 83, loving and devoted wife, mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother, passed away on Saturday, May 9, after a brief illness. Funeral services will be held at 10:30am, Tuesday, May 12, in the Coker-Mathews funeral chapel in Greenville, with the Rev. David Hammonds and grandson Jason Turner officiating. Visitation will be at Coker-Matthews on Monday, May 11, from 6:00-8:00 pm.
Burial will be in the Quinlan I.O.O.F. cemetery under the direction of Coker-Mathews Funeral Home, Greenville.
Inez was born July 19, 1925 in Quinlan to Delton “Chub” and Susie Todd Cannon. She attended Stringtown School and graduated from Quinlan High School in 1944. She married David Lyle Turner in Greenville, on March 7, 1946. They had recently celebrated their 63rd wedding anniversary. As part of the “greatest” generation she worked in the war effort during World War II. She helped form the Mexico Friendship Club. She later worked for the Quinlan School district, retiring in 1987 after 17 years of service. She was an avid gardener, skilled seamstress, homemaker and devoted Christian. She was of the Baptist faith and a member of the Crosspoint Church of Quinlan.
She was preceded in death by her father in 1974, her mother in 1989, and her brother Joe Lee Cannon in 1998.
She is survived by her husband, sister Faye Shepherd and husband, Dan, of Mont Belvieu, Texas; three sons, David Lyle Jr. of Pasadena, Texas, A. Kent Turner and wife, Dianna, of Lake Tawakoni, and Bruce L. Turner and wife, Sandy, of Irving, Texas; seven grandchildren, David Alan of Rockwall, Jason and wife Shannon of Conway, Arkansas, Kristen and husband David Ayres, of Abilene, Texas, Amber Nicole and fiancé Stewart Smith of Mansfield, Texas, Aaron Reilly and wife Amy of Cedar Park, Texas, Nathan Reilly and wife Liza of Leander, Texas and Shannon Wilhite and husband Kyle of Denton, Texas; and eleven great-grandchildren.
Pallbearers will be Charlie Thompson, Gary Cannon, Ralph Smith, Stormy Shepherd, Butch Turner, and Brandon Hughes.