Mrs. Rachel Jane Edwards Turner age 84, of the Mt. Calvary community of Clarkton, went to her heavenly home on Sunday, February 6, 2022, with her family by her side.
Final rites will be held at 3:00 p.m. Thursday, February 10, 2022 at the Worthington Funeral Home Chapel, with Reverend David Crumpler officiating. Interment will follow in Columbus Memorial Park in Whiteville.
The family will receive friends on Thursday from 1:00 p.m. until 2:45 p.m. prior to the service at the funeral home.
She was the daughter of the late Wilson Edwards and Minta Blackwell Edwards and the widow of Reverend Franklin “Frank” Harry Turner who preceded her in 2015. She was also preceded in death by a son, Reverend Ronnie Franklin Turner and a daughter, Gloria Turner Childress.
She is survived by a daughter, Theresa Turner Clifton and husband, Dennis of Clarkton; son -in-law, Sam Childress of Little River, SC; daughter-in-law, Sandra Oliver Turner of Cleveland, TN; her sister-in-law, Iris Turner Gunter of Charlotte; 8 grandchildren, Cheryl Wilkerson, Kellie Gribble (Stephen), Erica Farmer (Matt), Michelle Turner, Taylor Childress, Dennis Clifton, II (Rachel), Daniel Clifton (Jenny), and Justin Clifton (Courtney); and 11 great-grandchildren.
In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to the Gloria Childress WBHS Memorial Scholarship- 550 Whiteville Road, Shallotte, NC 28470.
