ANNE TURNER

GREENSBURG, IND. Anne Turner, former educational coordinator for the Cottonwood Residential Treatment Center in Cape Girardeau and the wife of former Superintendent of Schools Arthur Turner, died Jan. 3, 1993 at her home. She was 54.

She was born March 19, 1938, in McMinnville, Tenn., and married Arthur Turner on May 11, 1985.

She was diagnosed with cancer in 1988, but continued in her post with the Cottonwood Center until July 1991. She and her husband then left Cape Girardeau for Greensburg, where he assumed the position he now holds as superintendent of schools.

She initiated the educational program at the Cottonwood Center in cooperation with the Cape Girardeau Public Schools. The center provides residential psychiatric services to youths with behavioral and other psychiatric problems.

Turner spent 19 years a teacher and counselor in the Twin Rivers Schools, and worked in the Migrant Education program at Southeast Missouri State University for two years. She also was a psychological examiner for the Cape Girardeau Public Schools for one year, and taught counseling for a year at the university.

She also worked for the Jackson Public Schools for a year.

"She had a life that touched a lot of people, and touched a lot of people very positively," he husband said.

She received her bachelor of science degree from Memphis State University, her master's degree from the University of Missouri and her doctorate from Southern Illinois University.

She was a member of Alpha Chi Omega, Phi Delta Kappa and Kappa Delta Pi.

She is survived by three daughters, Julie Gibson of Kansas City, Jean Lange of Ottawa, Kansas, and Jill Turner of Cape Girardeau; and two stepsons, Spencer Shain of Poplar Bluff, and Brian Turner of Cape Girardeau.

Funeral arrangements are incomplete at Gilliland-Howe Funeral Home in Greensburg.