Avis Turner

Letters From A Marine Avis Turner

Avis Turner was married to her husband, Elbert Turner, for fifty-six years. She knew she had the letters she transcribed in this book when she went through her home place and stored everything in our basement. Just last spring my book was published about my husband and his battle with Alzheimer's disease. Avis found these letters again in December 2018. She was fascinated with his telling about the two years in the Marines. He was drafted in 1950, called a year later. She knew Elbert Turner from church when we were growing up, but got reacquainted at a picnic in 1954, "orchestrated" by his mother and my aunt. Avis wrote a book about Elbert's struggle with Alzheimer's to help others, caregivers, relatives, etc. These letters will tell who her husband really was.