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Note: Obituary for Ora Ellen Brown Turner: Mrs. Ora Brown Turner, 74, of 364 Wingfoot Street, Rockmart, passed away Saturday, Jan. 7 (1978) at her residence after an extended illness. Funeral services were held Sunday, Jan. 8 at 4pm at the Piedmont Avenue Baptist Church. The Rev Guy Johnson, the Rev George Phillips and the Rev Joe Witcher officiated, and interment was in Rose Hill Cemetery with the Freeman Harris Funeral Home in charge of arrangements. A daughter of the late Joseph L and Ida Logan Brown, Mrs Turner was born in Blairsville, Ga on December 8, 1903. She was a member of the Old Liberty Baptist Church in Blairsville. Surviving are her husband, Jesse Turner, of Rockmart: Two sons, Clifford J Turner, of Decatur, and Cohen W Turner, of Cincinati, Ohio: two daughters, Mrs Bernice T Payne and Mrs Ercel T Davis, both of Rockmart: two brothers, John Brown, and Seaborn Brown, both of Rockmart: six sisters, Mrs Fannie Duvall, Mrs Avie Cook, Mrs Hazel Austin, Mrs Ada Martin, Mrs Clara Hightower and Mrs Mary Lou Owens, all of Rockmart. Eleven grandchildren and 15 great-grandchildren also survive. Pallbearers were Johnny Campbell, John Davis, James, Steve, and Amos Turner, Don Payne and William Leatherwood. (Rockmart Journal. Submitted by Lisa Akins.)
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