Roosevelt Turner

ON A BEAUTIFUL DAY FEBRUARY 8TH 1958 ROOSEVELT TURNER JR. AFFECTIONALLY KNOWN AS (MAINY BOY) WAS BORN TO ROOSEVELT TURNER SR. AND MARIE TURNER IN HOLLANDALE, MISSISSIPPI. HE WAS THE 9THCHILD OF 11 CHILDREN. ROOSEVELT RECEIVED HIS FORMAL EDUCATION IN THE SHARKY COUNTY SCHOOL SYSTEM AND GRADUATED FROM HENRY WEATHERS HIGH SCHOOL IN ROLLING FORK, MISSISSIPPI IN 1978. DURING THIS TIME HE BECAME A FATHER TO HIS FIRST CHILD.

TIME TO BE BORN: ROOSEVELT ACCEPTED CHRIST AT A YOUNG AGE AND WAS BAPTIZED BY THE LATE PASTOR F.P. SHORT OF BETHLEHEM MISSIONARY BAPTIST CHURCH IN PANTHER BURN. MISSISSIPPI.

TIME TO MOVE ON: ROOSEVELT CONTINUED HIS MEMBERSHIP UNTIL HE RELOCATED TO CHICAGO IL, WHERE HE WORKED VARIOUS JOBS. HE THEN BECAME A FATHER TO HIS SECOND CHILD.

TIME OF LOVE: IN 1992 HE WAS UNITED IN HOLY MATRIMONY TO DEBORAH BELL. TO THIS UNION THREE CHILDREN WERE BORN. THEY RELOCATED TO CHAMPAIGN IL, WHERE HE WAS EMPLOYED AT AFSI (ADVANCED FILTRATION SYSTEM & INCORPORATED) FOR 31 YEARS BEFORE RETIRING. 

ROOSEVELT ENJOYED, COOKING, GRILLING, FIXING THINGS, FISHING, HUNTING, AND KEEPING HIS LAWN NICE AND TIGHT.  HE ENJOYED SPENDING TIME WITH HIS FAMILY, CHILDREN, GRAND CHILDREN, AND FRIENDS. ESPECIALLY HIS BROKE BEST FRIEND HIS DAUGHTER LAQUASHA.

TIME TO DIE: OUR HEAVENLY FATHER CALLED ROOSEVELT HOME ON April 12, 2024. HE WAS PRECEDED IN DEATH BY HIS MOTHER AND FATHER, 8 BROTHERS (PRINCE, WILLIE & L.C, EUGENE, LOUIS SR., JESSIE JR., DARNELL, JAMES SR.,) 2 SISTERS (EMMA & MARY) 2 NEPHEWS (MATT & WALTER) 1 AUNT (WILLA MAE JONES).

TIME TO EMBRACE: ROOSEVELT LIVES HIS PRECIOUS MEMORIES WITH ONE SON TYRONE GIPSON (HOLLANDALE, MS); FOUR DAUGHTERS SHEENA TURNER (MILWAUKEE, WI), LEVESHIA, LAQUASHA, LAKEISHA TURNER (CHAMPAIGN, IL) 9 GRANDCHILDREN TYRON PRESTON, TYON JONES (HOLLANDALE, MS), XANLYAH CRAIG, QUALYEN, O’ZARYAH, O’ZHYIR, QHAMARI BROWN (CHAMPAIGN, IL) BROOKLYN, BRAYLEN DAVIS (MILWAUKEE, WI) 1 GREAT GRANDSON TYLAN BROWN  (HOLLANDALE, MS) 7 SISTER ROSA (WARDELL) FLETCHER,  FLINT, MI) BARBARA TURNER (CHICAGO, IL) CAROL TURNER, JUANITA TURNER ( MILWAUKEE, WI) SHIRELY TURNER, BERNICE TURNER( ANGUILLA, MS) BOBBYE HYGRADE, ST. LOUIS, MO, ONE BROTHER DONALD RAY HYGRADE (ST. LOUIS, MO), A BONUS BROTHER HERBERT TROY JOHNSON ( RIVERDALE, GA), ONE LOVING AUNT BERNICE ROSS (CHICAGO, IL), ONE LOVING SISTER-IN-LAW DOROTHEA WASHINGTON( LOS ANGELES, CA) AND SPECIAL FRIENDS SYLVESTER YOUNG, CLYDE WILLIAMS, BRUCE WILLIS. AND A HOST OF NIECES AND NEPHEWS, COUSINS, SPECIAL COUSIN BRENDA JONES.

A celebration of life will commence at 12:00 Noon Saturday May 4, 2024 at Leek & Sons Funeral Home 1215 W. Bradley Ave. A visitation will begin 11:00 am until the time of the service. Burial will follow after at Lincoln Cemetery.

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