Funeral Mass for Blanche Margaret Turner, 2430 Masters, will be held at 2 p.m. Monday at St. Emily's Catholic Church in DesPlaines, Ill. The Rev. James O'Connor will officiate, with burial in All Saints Cemetery in DesPlaines.
Friends may call at the church Monday from 1 p.m. to service time.
Lorberg Memorial Funeral Chapel is in charge of arrangements.
Turner, 85, died Thursday, July 31, 1997, at Southeast Missouri Hospital.
She was born Jan. 3, 1912, in Chicago, daughter of Robert and Florence Belanger Bastien.
Turner had been a secretary for a construction company. She was a member of Old St. Vincent's Catholic Church.
Survivors include her husband, Calvin Turner; a stepson, Calvin Turner II of Chicago; two sisters, Dorothy Russo of El Paso, Texas, and Rose Hoffman of Chicago; and two stepgrandchildren.
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