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DATE: SATURDAY, June 18, 1994                    TAG: 9406180145 
SECTION: LOCAL                     PAGE: B2    EDITION: FINAL  
SOURCE: VIRGINIA BEACH 
DATELINE: 940618                                 LENGTH: Medium

DOROTHY R. TURNER

{LEAD} Dorothy Rinker Turner, 82, a retired registered nurse who lived on Timber Court, died June 16, 1994, in a Norfolk hospital.

Born in Mt. Pleasant, Iowa, and raised in Colorado, Mrs. Turner graduated from Denver General Hospital's Colorado Training School for Nurses in 1938. Six months after her graduation, she became superintendent of nurses at Taylor Hospital in Sidney, Nebraska.

{REST} In April, 1941, she joined the Army Nurses Corps as a lieutenant and served in the United States at Army and Navy General Hospital in Hot Springs, Arkansas, and Camps Hood and Berkeley in Texas.

As chief supervisor of the 32nd Evacuation Hospital's operating room, Mrs. Turner crossed the English Channel under cover of darkness and landed in France days after the invasion at Normandy.

For service during operations against the enemy in France, General George S. Patton awarded her the Bronze Star in February, 1945. She subsequently served in battles and campaigns in the Ardennes, the Rhineland and in Central Europe.

Mrs. Turner's long and distinguished nursing career continued after she resigned her commission as an Army captain in 1950, and culminated in 1989 with her retirement from the Norfolk Red Cross after 16 years' service.

Mrs. Turner was the widow of Dr. Harold Thomas Turner, a physician who practiced in Chesapeake until his death in 1973.

Survivors include her children, James R. Turner, Sarah T. Gornto and Cynthia T. Cooke, all of Virginia Beach; a brother, August Gerald Rinker, of Orange City, Florida; and three grandchildren, Miles Brooks Gornto, Claire Elizabeth Gornto and Dorothy Elena Cooke.

The family will be at Mrs. Turner's residence on Sunday from 2 until 4 p.m.

A memorial service will be conducted by the Reverend Andrew McBeth on Monday at 11 a.m. at the Eastern Shore Chapel in Virginia Beach. Burial will be private. H.D. Oliver Funeral Apartments is handling arrangements.

In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to the Eastern Virginia Medical School scholarship fund.

{KEYWORDS} DEATH OBITUARY

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