J. Glenn Turner, 69, of 10180 Gaywood Road, civic leader, attorney and former president of the State Bar of Texas from 1952-1953, died here Saturday.
He was senior partner of Turner, Hitchens, McInerney, Webb and Hartnett law firm, and graduated from Southern Methodist University Law School in 1928.
Born in Hubbard, Hill County, he was reared in Cooper, Delta County and served as Delta County Attorney from 1928-1932.
He was once described as a "poor boy who started way out in the bushes and worked in toward town, changing his clothes as he came," by the late Woodall Rodgers.
Turner began practicing law in Dallas in 1933 and was elected president of the Dallas Bar Association in 1939, the same year the American Bar Association (ABA) cited the Dallas organization as the outstanding one in the nation.
Among other offices he held as an attorney, Turner was director for the Fifth District of the State Bar Association from 1948-1952, chairman of the bar journal committee, chairman of the Building Finance committee and advisor to the American Citizenship committee.
He served on many committees of the ABA and was chairman of the ABA committee on local Bar activities. He served for several years as a delegate to the ABA House of Delegates.
Other activities included serving as director and member of the board of trustees of the Southwest Legal Foundation.
Also active in the business community, Turner was the former chairman of the board and principal stockholder of the Dallas Transit Co. before the city of Dallas took over ownership and more recently was a partner in the Chatham Hills Land Co.
He was also a director of the Public Service Co. of New Mexico, Southern Union Gas Co. and Aztec Oil and Gas Co.
A leader in civic affairs, he was a former director of the Dallas Community Chest, the Red Cross and a member of the Greater Dallas Planning Council.
He served as vice-president, director and general counsel of the State Fair of Texas and was on the board of directors of the Dallas Civic Opera.
Turner was an avid lover of horses and was president of the Dallas Charity Horse Show, vice-president of the U.S. Equestrian Team, on the board of the American Horse Show Association and president of the Tennessee Walking Horse Breeders Association of America.
Among his other activities Turner was a former member of the Board of Stewards of Highland Park Methodist Church and a member of the Phi Delta Phi legal fraternity and Sigma Alpha Epsilon social fraternity.
He had memberships in the Dallas Country Club, BrookHollow Golf Club and was active in the Terpsichorean Club and the Idlewild Club.
Funeral services will be held at 11:30 a.m. Monday in the Sparkman-Hillcrest Funeral Chapel, 7405 W. Northwest Highway. Burial will be in Sparkman-Hillcrest Memorial Park.
He is survived by his wife, Louise, three sons, two daughters and ten grandchildren.
J. Glenn Turner, 69, of 10180 Gaywood Road, civic leader, attorney and former president of the State Bar of Texas from 1952-1953, died here Saturday.
He was senior partner of Turner, Hitchens, McInerney, Webb and Hartnett law firm, and graduated from Southern Methodist University Law School in 1928.
Born in Hubbard, Hill County, he was reared in Cooper, Delta County and served as Delta County Attorney from 1928-1932.
He was once described as a "poor boy who started way out in the bushes and worked in toward town, changing his clothes as he came," by the late Woodall Rodgers.
Turner began practicing law in Dallas in 1933 and was elected president of the Dallas Bar Association in 1939, the same year the American Bar Association (ABA) cited the Dallas organization as the outstanding one in the nation.
Among other offices he held as an attorney, Turner was director for the Fifth District of the State Bar Association from 1948-1952, chairman of the bar journal committee, chairman of the Building Finance committee and advisor to the American Citizenship committee.
He served on many committees of the ABA and was chairman of the ABA committee on local Bar activities. He served for several years as a delegate to the ABA House of Delegates.
Other activities included serving as director and member of the board of trustees of the Southwest Legal Foundation.
Also active in the business community, Turner was the former chairman of the board and principal stockholder of the Dallas Transit Co. before the city of Dallas took over ownership and more recently was a partner in the Chatham Hills Land Co.
He was also a director of the Public Service Co. of New Mexico, Southern Union Gas Co. and Aztec Oil and Gas Co.
A leader in civic affairs, he was a former director of the Dallas Community Chest, the Red Cross and a member of the Greater Dallas Planning Council.
He served as vice-president, director and general counsel of the State Fair of Texas and was on the board of directors of the Dallas Civic Opera.
Turner was an avid lover of horses and was president of the Dallas Charity Horse Show, vice-president of the U.S. Equestrian Team, on the board of the American Horse Show Association and president of the Tennessee Walking Horse Breeders Association of America.
Among his other activities Turner was a former member of the Board of Stewards of Highland Park Methodist Church and a member of the Phi Delta Phi legal fraternity and Sigma Alpha Epsilon social fraternity.
He had memberships in the Dallas Country Club, BrookHollow Golf Club and was active in the Terpsichorean Club and the Idlewild Club.
Funeral services will be held at 11:30 a.m. Monday in the Sparkman-Hillcrest Funeral Chapel, 7405 W. Northwest Highway. Burial will be in Sparkman-Hillcrest Memorial Park.
He is survived by his wife, Louise, three sons, two daughters and ten grandchildren.
