Margaret A. Turnage

Published 12:32 pm Friday, August 29, 2014

By Staff Reports

Graveside services were held August 19, 2014, at Mt. Zion UMC Cemetery in Prentiss for Margaret A. Turnage, age 96, of Brandon, who passed away on August 17 at Brandon Nursing and Rehab Center in Brandon. Interment immediately followed the services. Saulters Moore Funeral Home of Prentiss was in charge of all arrangements.

Scotty Cliburn and Rev. Paul McDonald officiated.

Mrs. Margaret A. Turnage was born on October 24, 1917, in Bessemer, AL. She was the daughter of Heidel Harmon Anderson and Laura Appleberry. She was a homemaker and she was a member of the Prentiss United Methodist Church.

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Mrs. Turnage is survived by three daughters, Laura Monday of Carthage, Norine Guthrie of Pearl and Betty Olesen of Washatau, WA; her son, Jimmy Turnage of Utica; nine grandchildren; 24 great-grandchildren; one great-great-grandchild; one sister, May Chatman of Jackson, TN.

She was preceded in death by her parents, husband, three brothers and seven sisters.

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