Senator Francis Austin Turner View All Years

Compiled Historical Information

Date of Death: 1/12/1962

Birth Place: Corning, Iowa

Birth County: Adams

Party Affiliation: Republican

Assemblies Served:
Senate: 57 (1957) - 58 (1959)

Home County: Adams

Family Members Who Served in the Iowa Legislature: Uncle: Daniel W. Turner; GAs 30 - 32

Francis Austin Turner

Adams County

FRANCIS A. TURNER

MR. PRESIDENT: Your committee, appointed to prepare a suitable resolution commemorating the life, character and public service of the late Honorable Francis A. Turner, begs leave to submit the following memorial:

Francis A. Turner was born March 24, 1900, in Corning, Iowa, son of Austin B. Turner, Jr., and Ella S. Shuler Turner. He was a nephew of Dan W. Turner, former Governor of Iowa.

Senator Turner was educated in the Corning Public schools, Kiski prep school and Grinnell College, from which he received a B.A. degree in 1921.

He married LaNor Holmes of Keota, Iowa, in 1924. To this union was born a son, Austin B. Turner III, of Corning, and a daughter, Mrs. Bernard J. Hogan of Irving, Texas.

He was a merchant and farm manager in Corning since 1921, serving as an original member of the Corning municipal utilities board for twenty years, and as a member of the Corning public school board for eighteen years. For many years he was associated with his father at Turner’s Store, one of Southwest Iowa’s oldest business firms.

He was a member of the Presbyterian church and was active in community affairs, serving as Adams County U. S. Savings Bond chairman from 1942 to 1960, President of the Adams County Weather Modification Association, and a member of the American Legion and Rotary International.

He was elected to the Iowa Senate in 1956 and served during the 1957 and 1959 sessions from Adams and Taylor Counties.

He died at a Corning hospital Friday, January 12, 1962, at the age of 61.

Therefore, Be It Resolved by the Senate of the Sixtieth General Assembly of the State of Iowa: That in the passing of Francis A. Turner the state has lost a valuable, loyal and honored citizen, and by this resolution tenders its sincere sympathy to the members of the family.

Be It Further Resolved: That a copy of this resolution be spread on the Journal of the Senate and that the Secretary of the Senate be instructed to forward an enrolled copy to each member of his family.

EDWARD A. WEARIN,

ORVAL C. WALTER,

JOHN D. SHOEMAN,

Committee.

The resolution was unanimously adopted.

Senate District 6