The news reached Blair Tuesday morning that “Spide” Turner, formerly an engineer on the M. & O., but later employed on the Missouri Pacific, had been killed in a wreck that morning, and that the remains would be shipped to Blair for interment. Turner was a former resident of Blair, his father owning a large tract of land just south of Blair in the early days.

~~~Obituaries courtesy of the Nebraska Washington County Genealogical Society. Newspaper clippings on file in the Blair, Nebraska Public Library~~~

Find a Grave Memorial #28733359 Note: The Vig Note have his parents names as Edwin K. and Martha A. (Tucker) Turner. Their FAG #'s are 28733447 and 28742137.