Sallie Blake Turner Obituary (1929 - 2016)

Private graveside services for Mrs. Sallie Blake Turner, age 87, will be held at 11:00 AM on Thursday, March 17, 2016, at Cairo Cemetery in Alamo, Tennessee with Ronk Funeral Home in charge. Her son William B. Turner Jr. will be delivering the eulogy. Mrs. Turner, a long-time resident of Galveston, Texas went home to be with the Lord on Thursday, March 10, 2016, at the Memorial Medical Center of Livingston, Texas. She was born on January 26, 1929, to the late Thomas Smith and Anne Margaret Harper Blake of Galveston, Texas. She was a member of Central United Methodist Church. She was retired from American National Life Insurance Company. She was preceded in death by her husband, William B. Turner Sr; brothers, Thomas Blake, Charlie Blake, and Wilbourn Blake; sister, Mollie Ann Benn; brothers in law, Robert Turner, Charles Turner, and Rex Turner. Survivors include her son, William B. Turner Jr. (Laura); daughter, Irene Turner Abshire (Gary); grandchildren, Ruth Ann Sorrell (Charles), Mae Diaz de Leon (Isaac), Erin Lynch (Robert), Kyle Abshire; CoyE'Laine Grammar, Tiffany Horton, William John Clark, Racheal Harrell; great-grandchildren, Mollie, Devon, and Elanor Diaz de Leon; great-grandchildren - ten; great-great grandchildren - four; brothers in law, David Turner and G.W. Turner; sisters in law, Ruth Turner, Ann Turner, Dorothy Neal Turner, Audrey Turner, and Johnnie Bell Webb; several nieces and nephews. A memorial service will be held at Galveston Central Church located at 3308 Avenue 0 1/2, Galveston, Texas on March 26, 2016 at 4PM.