Jean Tremon Turner

Funeral services for Mrs. Emily Jean Tremon Turner, 79 will be conducted Saturday, Jan. 24, 2015 at 2 o’clock in the Gordon First Baptist Church with Rev. Paul Curry and Rev. Maxie Threatt officiating. Interment will follow in Ramah Cemetery. The family will be at Williams Funeral Home in Gordon Friday from 6 until 8 pm. Jean was born in Gordon, Georgia, and proudly lived her entire life in her hometown. She is the daughter of Emmie and Jim Tremon, wife of Kenneth L. Turner for 57 years and mother of Ken, Jim and Robert. Jean was a medical x-ray technician, County Director of Red Cross, and chairperson of several civic organizations in her earlier years. She attended Gordon High School and Georgia Southern University. One of her favorite jobs was substitute teaching which she did for fifty-two years. Foremost in Jean's life was being a loving wife and mother as well as a loyal supporter of every member of her family. She was a friend to many including hundreds of children in Wilkinson County. One of her greatest passions was supporting the local high school basketball teams (a good player in her own right) and was a surrogate mother to many children over the fifty-five years of her support. Jean was always a smiling, humorous, outgoing lady with an unwavering attitude about "doing what's right." She was kind to all of God's creation. Jean was a member of First Baptist Church of Gordon for 68 years and served as Sunbeam teacher and BTU leader for several years. She often talked about Mrs. Martha Dennis and how wonderful her experiences were as a GA in her class. Survivors include her husband (of fifty-seven years) Kenneth and sons Ken (Celia), Jim (Leslie), and Robert (Michelle) Turner. Her grandchildren are Miranda Daidone (Billy), Branden Turner, and Chelsea Smith; sister Joyce Vollenweider; nieces and nephews Jimmy Vollenweider, Denise Sassaman, Terry Day (Cobby), Jan Tremon, and a niece like daughter Dale (Dan) Dixon. She also has an unofficially adopted son Joe (Joan) Smith. Jean shared a very special friendship with Priscilla Floyd, Mint Hawthorne (deceased), and Jean Ussery (deceased. Other special friends that she came to love and who loved her are Katherine Davis, Faye Williams, Subrena Reeves, Katrina Greene, Shan Ingram, and Maggie Thomas. In Lieu of flowers the family request expressions of sympathy made to the Gordon First Baptist Church or to the Alzheimer’s Assoc.

Jean Tremon Turner

March 11, 1935 - January 21, 2015