Doris M. Turner

Doris Mae Turner, age 94, of Glidden, Iowa, passed away on Tuesday, November 17, 2009 at Shady Oaks Nursing Home in Lake City, Iowa. Funeral services will be held at 10:30 A.M. on Saturday, November 21, 2009 at Pleasant Ridge Community Church south of Glidden with Rev. Brian Hodge officiating. Friends may call at the Dahn and Woodhouse Funeral Home in Glidden after 4:00 P.M. on Friday where there will be prayer service held at 7:00 P.M.. The casket will be moved to the church at 8:30 A.M. on Saturday to lie in state until the time of service. Casket bearers will be Shawn Wentworth, Flavio Sanchez, Kurt Turner, Michael Carlson, Mark Carlson, Matthew Carlson, Kevin Whitver, and Donald Ferguson. Honorary casket bearers will be Doris’ grandchildren, great grandchildren, and great great grandchildren. Burial will be in the Merle Hay Memorial Cemetery near Glidden. Born on November 10, 1915 at Monmouth, Illinois, she was the daughter of David and Jennie (Luke) Andersen. Her father was a Presbyterian minister and Doris lived in several communities growing up. She graduated from Churdan High School in 1933 and was the valedictorian of her class. She was married to Chet Farley on September 15, 1933. Mr. Farley passed away in November of 1952. After his death she put herself through college earning a degree in education from Drake University. Doris later married Fred S. Turner on March 29, 1961. She taught elementary school for one year in Lohrville and twenty eight years at Glidden – Ralston High School. She was an active member of Pleasant Ridge Community Church south of Glidden. She was also a member of the Ralston Club and the Retired Teachers Association of which she served as secretary for many years. Doris enjoyed embroidering, reading, traveling, and spending time with her family. Surviving are a daughter Barbara Carlson and her husband Aaron of Lake City; a son Ramon Farley and his wife Frances of Roswell, New Mexico; a daughter Marcia Wentworth and her husband Paul of Loup City, Nebraska; a daughter-in-law Ursula Turner of Glidden; eleven grandchildren; eighteen great grandchildren; five great great grandchildren; and numerous other relatives. She was preceded in death by her parents, her husbands, two brothers: Thodore “Ray” Luke and William Luke, and a son-in-law Doug Terner.