THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1997, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Wednesday, February 12, 1997 TAG: 9702120416
SECTION: LOCAL PAGE: B9 EDITION: FINAL
DATELINE: CHARLOTTESVILLE LENGTH: 30 lines
Sally Turner, artist and wife of retired University of Virginia associate professor of art Theodore R. Turner, died Feb. 10, 1997.
Mrs. Turner was born Sara Sargent in 1916 in Jefferson, Ohio, to Judge Charles R. and Olive Sargent. After graduating from Wellesley College and Parsons School of Design, she studied painting in New York at the Arts Student League and the Hans Hoffman School of Art and worked in advertising on Madison Avenue. During World War II, she served as an artist in the U.S. Navy. In recent years, her work has been the subject of one-person shows at the McGuffey Art Center and Second Street Gallery in Charlottesville, the Foundry Gallery in Washington, D.C., the Roanoke Museum of Fine Art, and Tidewater Community College in Virginia Beach.
Mrs. Turner is survived by her husband, Ted; three daughters, Suzanna Turner of Palmyra, Vicki R. Morgan of McLean and Jane E. Quinn of Earlysville; two brothers, C. Frederick Sargent of Charlottesville and Robert C. Sargent of Earlysville; and seven grandchildren, Sara Morgan, Hunter Quinn, Elizabeth Morgan, Cameron Quinn, Christopher Morgan, Reid Quinn and Nicholas Quinn.
A graveside service will be held at 11 a.m. today at Monticello Memory Gardens on Monticello Mountain. The family asks that in lieu of flowers, any memorial donations be made to the McGuffey Art Center Scholarship Fund in the name of Sally Turner at 201 2nd Street, S.W., Charlottesville, Va. 22902.
Hill & Wood Funeral Service, Charlottesville, is in charge of arrangements.
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