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Spring Valley Cemetery ~ Mary Lou Turnbull ~ part of the Polk County Pioneer Cemeteries of Oregon
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Turnbull, Mary Lou
LAST NAME: Turnbull FIRST NAME: Mary MIDDLE NAME: Lou NICKNAME: 
MAIDEN NAME: Burton AKA 1:  AKA 2:  AKA 3: 
GENDER: F TITLE: 
BORN: 9 May 1893 DIED: 7 Mar 1978 BURIED:  (Spring Valley Cemetery)
OCCUPATION:  
BIRTH PLACE:  Mulhall, Oklahoma
DEATH PLACE: Salem, Marion Co, Oregon
NOTES: 

Marriage of Parents – Alonzo C. Burton & Sarah A. Burnett md 12 Apr 1891, Douglas co, Kansas

1900 TN CENSUS – Mary L. Burton (b May 1893, Kentucky [sic]) enumerated with parents Alonzo (b Feb 1856, Kentucky, married 9y, occupation farmer) and Sadie B. (b Nov 1868, Kentucky, mother of 4 children) and 3 siblings, Howard B. (b Apr 1892, Kentucky), Geneva (b Feb 1896, Tennessee) and Raymond K. (b Apr 1899, Tennessee)

1910 OR CENSUS – Mary Burton (16y, b Oklahoma) enumerated with parents Alonzo C. (53y, b Kentucky, married 19y) and Sara B. (41y, b Kansas, mother of 4 children, 3 living at time of census, occupation keeper of boarding house) and 2 brothers, Howard (18y, b Kansas) and Kenneth (11y, b Tennessee)

1920 OR CENSUS – Mary L. Burton (26y, b Oklahoma) enumerated with mother Sarah B. (50y, b Kansas, widowed, occupation baker) and brother Kenneth R. (20y, b Tennessee)

MARRIAGE – George S. Turnbull & Mary Lou Burton md 31 July 1927, Lane co, Oregon

1930 OR CENSUS – Mary L. Turnbull (36y, b Oklahoma, married at age 33y) enumerated with husband George S. (47y, b England, immigrated 1892, naturalized, married at age 43y, occupation teaching) and son George S. (8m, b Oregon)

1940 OR CENSUS – Mary Lou Turnbull (47y, b Oklahoma) enumerated with husband Geo. (57y, b England, occupation journalism professor) and 2 children, George S. (10y, b Oregon) and Sarah (8y, b Oregon); family was living in same place in 1935

DEATH CERTIFICATE: 

OSBH DC (1978 Marion co) #78-04455 

OBITUARY: 

Mary Lou Turnbull, 84, of Salem, died Tuesday in a local nursing home. She was born in Mulhall, Okla, and moved to Eugene from Oklahoma as a child, living there until 1973, when she moved to Salem. In 1927 she married George S. Turnbull. He died in 1977. She graduated in 1923 from the University of Oregon and was a newspaper reporter. Survivors include a son, George Stanley Jr, Palo Alto, Calif; a daughter, Sarah Louise Johnson, Salem; and five grandchildren. Private family services will be Saturday under direction of Howell-Edwards-Doerksen mortuary, and interment in Zena Cemetery, northwest of Salem. The family suggests contributions to the University of Oregon School of Journalism in care of Allen Hall, Eugene.

Capital Journal, Thursday, March 9, 1978, page 32

INSCRIPTION: 

Turnbull
Mary Lou
1893 - 1978
[shares marker with George S.] 

SOURCES: 

Janssen Compilation
Saucy Survey & Photographs

ODI

Kansas County Marriage Records (Ancestry.com)

1900 TN CENSUS (Lawrence co, District 13, ED 58, sheet 9B)

1910 OR CENSUS (Lane co, Eugene, ED 164, sheet 1B)

1920 OR CENSUS (Lane co, Eugene, ED 245, sheet 14A)

Oregon Marriage Index

1930 OR CENSUS (Lane co, Eugene, ED 32, sheet 3B)

1940 OR CENSUS (Lane co, Eugene, ED 20-34, sheet 7B)

CJ, 9 Mar 1978, page 32

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