Submitted by Ken Gates

Willie Daniel Turner

August 7, 1924 – June 9, 2007

Willie Daniel Turner, 82, of Rosebud, died Sunday, June 3, 2007 in a Cameron hospital.

Services were held Saturday, June 9, 2007 in the First Baptist Church of Rosebud with Pastor Aaron Anderson officiating.

Burial was in Bluebonnet Cemetery in Rosebud.

Deacon Turner was born August 7, 1924 to the late Rev. Freeman Tyler and Winnie Mae Hamilton Turner in Rosebud.

He attended Wilson White High School in Rosebud. He retired after 50 years service as a truck driver for Rosebud Feed and Grain.

He was a member of Independence Baptist Church in Rosebud and later joined the Manasseh C.O.G.I.C. where he was ordained as a deacon, served as Sunday school teacher, superintendent of Sunday School, trustee board chairman, usher board, choir president, and president of the Brotherhood and YPWW.

He married his "Alberta Peach", Minerva Hicks on December 5, 1963.

He was preceded in death by his first wife, Ora Mae Turner; daughter, Barbara Nell McIntyre; two brothers, Charles and Freeman; and two sisters, Ruth Turner and Osia Maze.

Survivors include his wife, Minerva Turner of Rosebud; seven daughters, Ruby Featherson, Wanda Rollins, and Diane Turner of Killeen, Renee Brooks of Waco, Karen Turner and Annette Turner of Rosebud, Leticia and Carl Wilson of Hearne; sons, W.D. Turner, Jr. and Jackie Turner of Santa Monica, Calif., James and Doris Hicks of Waco, Felix and Beverly Jackson and Gaylon Turner of Temple; two sisters, Olean and Roscoe Davis of Killeen, and Vernita Jamesion of Calif.; 36 grandchildren; 49 great-grandchildren; and eight great-great-grandchildren.