Posted on: Wood Co. Wi Obits Forum Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Wi/WoodObits/268 Surname: ENERSON, HAASL, JERGENSON, JOHNSON, LEWIS, MEYER, NELSON, PETERSON, SMITH, TURNER, VanDAM, WILLIS ------------------------- Lena H TURNER Obit taken from the Pittsville Record, Volume 91 Number 37, Thursday September 21, 2000, Page 5 Lena H TURNER, 1904-2000 Lena H TURNER, 96, formerly of Pittsville, died Monday September 18, 2000 at Edgewater Haven Nursing Home, Port Edwards. Funeral services were held at Buchanan Funeral Home, Pittsville. Reader Terry NASH of Wisconsin Rapids Kingdom Hall of Jehovah Witness officiated. Burial was in Mound Cemetery, Pittsville, with her grandsons serving as pallbearers. Lena TURNER was born July 4, 1904 in Chicago to Aaron and Alice (MEYER) VAN DAM. They moved to Pittsville when she was a small child. She attended Wallace grade school in Pittsville. Lena then moved to Wisconsin Rapids and worked as a domestic while attending Lincoln High School, graduating in 1922. She attended classes towards her teaching certificate at Wood County Normal School in Wisconsin Rapids. Lena married Clarke TURNER June 2, 1924 at the Congregational Church Parsonage in Pittsville. They lived in the Town of Dexter and farmed in the Town of Cary. In 1928 they built a home on the Turner Place in the Town of Cary and moved there. In 1942 they moved to a farm 3 miles west of Pittsville in the Town of Wood where they continued to farm until 1970. Then they moved to Hillsboro and managed a Kickapoo Gas Station. In October 1973 they retired and returned to Pittsville. They celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary June 2, 1974. Clarke died November 9, 1974. Lena was a homemaker and enjoyed gardening, canning and baking. She entered Edgewater Haven in November 1986. She is survived by seven daughters, Bernice (Raymond) WILLS of Wisconsin Rapids, Helen JERGENSON of Port Edwards, Bonnie HAASL of Wisconsin Rapids, Effie ENERSON of Marshfield, Hazel (Virgil) LEWIS of Beloit, June SMITH of Marshfield, and Darlene (Ralph) PETERSON of Pittsville; 27 grandchildren, 56 great-grandchildren; eight step great-grandchildren; 16 great-great-grandchildren; one brother, Clarence VAN DAM of Walworth; two sisters, Phyllis NELSON of Danville, Illinois and Cornelia JOHNSON of Rockford, IL. She was preceded in death by her parents, her husband, two grandsons, one great-grand-daughter, one sister and four brothers. Joan M BENNER, Golden Rule Genealogy Member, Association of Professional Genealogists Rootsweb Sponsor Link: Golden Rule Genealogy URL: <http://www.rootsweb.com/~wiwood/resource/r-joanb.htm>