Rites Set For Area Schoolman

CARROLLTON, Texas - Funeral services for Robert Leon Turner, 58, superintendent of Carrollton schools, will be held at 2 p.m. Tuesday in the First Baptist Church.  Masonic graveside services and burial in Restland Memorial Park in Dallas.

Mr. Turner was a native of Smith County and attended Southern Methodist University and North Texas State University in Denton, receiving his bachelor's degree in 1932 and his masters degree in 1939.

He began teaching at the age of 18, serving as teacher at Brushie Prairie, Navarro County, in 1922.  In 1924 he became principal at Rome, Henderson County, and moved to Tripp in Dallas County in 1925 as principal and teacher.  In 1934 he became superintendent of schools in Duncanville, a position he held for 11 years.

He became superintendent at Carrollton in 1945.

Mr. Turner was a 32d degree Mason, a Shriner and member of Hella Temple in Dallas.

He was a member of the Central Christian Church of Dallas; member of the American Association of School Administrators; and was past president of the Carrollton Lion's Club, chairman of the Carrollton Charter Commission, past board member of the First Christian Church of Carrollton, and served as a member of the Hale-Aiken Curriculum Committee in 1959.

Survivors: Wife: three sons, Robert L. Turner, Jr., Thomas J. Turner and John C. Turner of Carrollton; and two sisters. Mrs. R. L. Shepard of Auburn. Kan., and Mrs. H. C. Calvert of Denton.

The Dallas Morning News - June 12, 1962
Submitted by Edward L. Williams

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