NAOMI TURNER

CHARLESTON -- Naomi Moss Turner, 68, of Charleston died Friday, Aug. 20, 1999, at her home.

She was born Sept. 22, 1930, in Blytheville, Ark., daughter of the late Louis and Annie Naugles Tarver. She moved to Missouri in the early 1930s.

She attended Lincoln High School in Charleston and graduated from Belleville Area College.

She married Authur Lee Turner and was a member of the East Prairie congregation of Jehovah's Witnesses.

She is survived by four daughters, Carolyn Young Harris, Tammy Dixon and Florence Moss, all of Charleston, and Kathy Howard of Indianapolis; five sons, Leslie Harrington of Chicago, George Moss of Cairo, Ill., Rodney Moss of Sacramento, Calif., Derrick Moss of Sikeston and Felix Hill of St. Louis; two brothers, Eugene Tarver of Chicago and Ernest Tarver of St. Louis; and several grandchildren, great-grandchildren and great-great-grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by her husband, two children and a brother.

The body will be cremated.

Memorial service will be at 2 p.m. Wednesday, conducted by Jehovah's Witnesses and held at Sparks Funeral Home.

The memorial talk will be given by elder Fred Abernathy Jr. and assisted by elder Matthew Palmer.

Following the memorial service, a private burial will be at a family plot in Oak Grove Cemetery near Charleston.