James Turner

James (Dr. Jim) Herbert Turner, M.D., died Nov. 4, 2008. He was born in Arkansas City, Ark. Dr. Jim was preceded in death by his parents, Dr. Wylie and Cora Moore Turner, along with three brothers and three sisters.

Dr. Jim served in the U.S. Army on Guadalcanal during World War II. After returning from the war, he attended and graduated from the University Of Arkansas School Of Medicine in 1952. He went into private practice with his brother, Dr. William F. Turner, Sr., and they practiced in Piggott and the Missouri towns of Steele and Dexter before settling in Poplar Bluff.

In 1976, Dr. Jim left his medical practice to complete a residency in psychiatry at the University of Missouri, Columbia. He served on the faculty of the University Of Illinois College Of Medicine in Rockford, Ill. He was appointed at the University as an Associate Clinical Professor and also did consulting work throughout the United States before retiring in 1999.

Dr. Jim is survived by his wife, Choon, of Brentwood, Tenn.; two children, Bonnie Turner Ervin and husband Gore of Murfreesboro, Tenn., Wylie Albert Turner and wife Trudie of Wilmington, N.C., and a sister, Paige Riffe and husband Phil of Oklahoma. He had three grandchildren, Elizabeth and Brian Ervin and James William Turner. He had several nieces and nephews, two of which he was especially close to, William F. Turner, Jr. and wife Janet of Poplar Bluff, and Suzanne Turner Riehl and husband Van of Jackson, Mo.

Memorial gifts may be made to the University of Arkansas Class of 1952 Scholarship Endowment in the name of James H. Turner (University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, 4301 West Markham Street, #716, Little Rock Ark., 72205) or to the Brentwood Library Foundation (8109 Concord Road, Brentwood, Tenn., 37027).