LA PLATA HOME PRESS, La Plata, Missouri
November 20, 1952
ROBERT BRADLEY TURNER
---La Plata's oldest resident, Robert Bradley Turner, died at the home of his daughter early Monday morning at the age of ninety-seven years and eight months. After an illness of five days, death denied Turner's supreme desire: to be one hundred and help La Plata celebrate its centennial in 1955.
---Born March 10, 1885, Turner was the son of Elijah and Martha Yates Turner, who lived on the farm east of La Plata and came to La Plata in 1904 where he ran a hardware store on the northwest corner of the square until 1940, when he retired.
---Up until a year ago Turner's health was excellent. He attended Church and Sunday School regularly, walked up town and rejected any idea that he was an "old man." He boasted that he had no stiff joints, no aches or pains, read without glasses, chewed with his own teeth and walked without a cane. Only in the past year did his health fail and he found himself confined to the house.
---An elder in the Community Presbyterian Church, Turner was also a Sunday School teacher for many years.
---His strenght of spirit and sense of humor endeared him to many generations of La Platians. He returned their admiration by saying he had "lived during the best age of the world, was born and reared in the best state in the U.S.A. and lived in the best town among the best people God ever gave to this earth."
---Funeral services were at 2:00 yesterday, November 19, at the Community Presbyterian Church with Rev. Harold P. Johnson officiating, Rev. Fred Hudson officiating. Burial was in the La Plata cemetery.
November 20, 1952
ROBERT BRADLEY TURNER
---La Plata's oldest resident, Robert Bradley Turner, died at the home of his daughter early Monday morning at the age of ninety-seven years and eight months. After an illness of five days, death denied Turner's supreme desire: to be one hundred and help La Plata celebrate its centennial in 1955.
---Born March 10, 1885, Turner was the son of Elijah and Martha Yates Turner, who lived on the farm east of La Plata and came to La Plata in 1904 where he ran a hardware store on the northwest corner of the square until 1940, when he retired.
---Up until a year ago Turner's health was excellent. He attended Church and Sunday School regularly, walked up town and rejected any idea that he was an "old man." He boasted that he had no stiff joints, no aches or pains, read without glasses, chewed with his own teeth and walked without a cane. Only in the past year did his health fail and he found himself confined to the house.
---An elder in the Community Presbyterian Church, Turner was also a Sunday School teacher for many years.
---His strenght of spirit and sense of humor endeared him to many generations of La Platians. He returned their admiration by saying he had "lived during the best age of the world, was born and reared in the best state in the U.S.A. and lived in the best town among the best people God ever gave to this earth."
---Funeral services were at 2:00 yesterday, November 19, at the Community Presbyterian Church with Rev. Harold P. Johnson officiating, Rev. Fred Hudson officiating. Burial was in the La Plata cemetery.
LA PLATA HOME PRESS, La Plata, Missouri
November 20, 1952
ROBERT BRADLEY TURNER
---La Plata's oldest resident, Robert Bradley Turner, died at the home of his daughter early Monday morning at the age of ninety-seven years and eight months. After an illness of five days, death denied Turner's supreme desire: to be one hundred and help La Plata celebrate its centennial in 1955.
---Born March 10, 1885, Turner was the son of Elijah and Martha Yates Turner, who lived on the farm east of La Plata and came to La Plata in 1904 where he ran a hardware store on the northwest corner of the square until 1940, when he retired.
---Up until a year ago Turner's health was excellent. He attended Church and Sunday School regularly, walked up town and rejected any idea that he was an "old man." He boasted that he had no stiff joints, no aches or pains, read without glasses, chewed with his own teeth and walked without a cane. Only in the past year did his health fail and he found himself confined to the house.
---An elder in the Community Presbyterian Church, Turner was also a Sunday School teacher for many years.
---His strenght of spirit and sense of humor endeared him to many generations of La Platians. He returned their admiration by saying he had "lived during the best age of the world, was born and reared in the best state in the U.S.A. and lived in the best town among the best people God ever gave to this earth."
---Funeral services were at 2:00 yesterday, November 19, at the Community Presbyterian Church with Rev. Harold P. Johnson officiating, Rev. Fred Hudson officiating. Burial was in the La Plata cemetery.
November 20, 1952
ROBERT BRADLEY TURNER
---La Plata's oldest resident, Robert Bradley Turner, died at the home of his daughter early Monday morning at the age of ninety-seven years and eight months. After an illness of five days, death denied Turner's supreme desire: to be one hundred and help La Plata celebrate its centennial in 1955.
---Born March 10, 1885, Turner was the son of Elijah and Martha Yates Turner, who lived on the farm east of La Plata and came to La Plata in 1904 where he ran a hardware store on the northwest corner of the square until 1940, when he retired.
---Up until a year ago Turner's health was excellent. He attended Church and Sunday School regularly, walked up town and rejected any idea that he was an "old man." He boasted that he had no stiff joints, no aches or pains, read without glasses, chewed with his own teeth and walked without a cane. Only in the past year did his health fail and he found himself confined to the house.
---An elder in the Community Presbyterian Church, Turner was also a Sunday School teacher for many years.
---His strenght of spirit and sense of humor endeared him to many generations of La Platians. He returned their admiration by saying he had "lived during the best age of the world, was born and reared in the best state in the U.S.A. and lived in the best town among the best people God ever gave to this earth."
---Funeral services were at 2:00 yesterday, November 19, at the Community Presbyterian Church with Rev. Harold P. Johnson officiating, Rev. Fred Hudson officiating. Burial was in the La Plata cemetery.
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