Richard Lee Turner

Richard Lee Turner was born April 30, 1938, at Effingham, Kansas. He was the son of Wilber C. and Eunice (Lynn) Turner. In the early 1970's and 1980's, Richard lived in Whittier, California, and Wellsville, Kansas, from 1982 to 1993. He moved to Pomona, Kansas, in 1993, and Ottawa, in Franklin County, Kansas, in 1998, where he made his home, until his death Wednesday, February 4, 2004, at the age of sixty-five years. Richard graduated from Lawrence High School with the class of 1957. For eleven years, in the 1950's and 1960's, he was employed as parts manager for Bendix Corporation in Kansas City, Missouri. He was a boiler operator for Hercules Sunflower Ammunition Plant in DeSoto and, from 1969 to 1975, he was an oilfield supervisor for Shull Oil Company in Signal Hill, California. He owned several different businesses in oil drilling and construction. He was a self-employed handyman in the Ottawa area, under the business name of Fairly Well Construction,