Obituary: Turner, Anne Bentley
Age 77
Born on December 13, 1935 in Warwick, Rhode Island as the second child of Arthur and Gertrude (Martin) Carmichael.
She grew up to be a very caring person and volunteered at the local hospital while in high school.
Anne graduated from Samuel F. Gorton High School and started working for a local bank in Providence where she once remembered pressing security notes with a flat iron following 1954 Hurricane Carol.
Soon after she met and eventually married her husband of 58 years, Richard N. Turner and began the nomadic life of an Air Force family.
The family lived in Cape Cod, Massachusetts, Anchorage, Alaska, Fairchild Air Force Base near Spokane, Washington, Tucson, Arizona, eventually settling in Spokane.
After their children left the nest, Anne and Richard moved to Paradise Prairie south of Spokane, then to Norwalk, California before returning to Spokane for good in 1995.
Anne was twice Worthy Matron of the Order of the Eastern Star, Audubon Chapter Number 214 and traveled extensively serving the Grand Chapter of Washington Order of Eastern Star.
She was a member of the Vestry at St. Thomas Episcopal Church in Long Beach, California, Secretary of the Southside Newcomers in Spokane, President of the Silver Lanes Mixed Adult Bowling League, an avid quilter who made grand quilts for charity auctions, and an active supporter of Kinderchor Youth Chorus of Spokane.
Kinderchor honored Anne and Richard with the establishment of the Turner Award for Volunteer Services in 2010.
Anne is remembered by family and friends for always helping out with church activities, making wonderful quilts for charity, knitting and crocheting blankets, sweaters and hats; providing warm pajamas at Christmas for kids, grandkids and great-grandkids; baking cookies and cakes for any occasion, and feeding her large family at gatherings and events.
Anne was preceded in death by her parents, her older brother Francis Carmichael, and younger sister Betty Lou Baumflek and their spouses.
She is survived by her husband Richard and four children; Richard N. Turner II (Sue), David Turner (Lynda), Linda Skidmore (Ron), and Robert Turner (Julie).
She was a loving grandmother to 14 grandchildren,13 great-grandchildren and one great-great-grandson.
A memorial service will be held 2:00 pm on Saturday, August 31, 2013 at St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church, 5720 South Perry Street, Spokane, Washington.
Fr.
Bill Osborne will officiate with interment in the church columbarium.
Memorial gifts may be made to Kinderchor of Spokane Youth Chorus by contacting Sharon Smith at 509-714-0555.