{"id":1481,"date":"2012-09-30T09:16:08","date_gmt":"2012-09-30T14:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unitymortuary.com\/obits\/?p=1481"},"modified":"2012-10-02T09:19:20","modified_gmt":"2012-10-02T14:19:20","slug":"mack-turner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/unitymortuary.com\/obits\/?p=1481","title":{"rendered":"Mack Turner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/unitymortuary.com\/obits\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Mack-Turner-1st.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-1482\" title=\"Mack Turner 1st\" src=\"http:\/\/unitymortuary.com\/obits\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Mack-Turner-1st-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>Turner, Mack &#8211; <\/strong>of Knoxville, formerly of Calhoun, GA, departed this life on Sunday, September 30, 2012.\u00a0He was a veteran of the U.S. Army.\u00a0Mack was a faithful member of Mount Olive Baptist Church for over 30 years.\u00a0He was a graduate of Rule High School and was employed by Knox County School System primarily at Green Elementary School.\u00a0He was a spirit filled man who loved the Lord and cared deeply for others.\u00a0He had a big heart caring for those near and far.\u00a0Mack was a proud supporter of Feed the Children Organization where he adopted many children in other countries. He is predeceased by his father, Junior Gregory and grandparents, Sam (Lucy Mae) Turner.\u00a0Survived by wife, Alice Turner; son, Keith (LaKeeva) Turner; 2 stepdaughters; eight grandchildren; 4 great grandchildren; mother, Ann (Wilbert) Boatwright; brothers: Ricky (Betty), Ronnie and Jeff Turner and Jerry Curtis of Alabama; sisters, Deborah Turner and Shirley (Michael) Johnson; aunts: Margaret Smith, Wallene, Betty and Pauline Turner, all of Calhoun, GA; uncle, Jimmy (Jessie) Turner of Calhoun, GA; devoted cousin and caretaker, Kenneth Rodgers; close friends: Alberta Morrison, Ronnie Nelson and Charles Stone (cousin); a host of other relatives and friends.\u00a0A special thank you to UT Hospice.\u00a0On Friday, October 5, 2012, the family will receive friends from 11:00 a.m. to 12 noon, funeral to follow at Mount Olive\u00a0Baptist Church.\u00a0Rev. Dr. Valentino McNeal officiating.\u00a0Interment will immediately follow the service at TN State Veterans Cemetery, John Sevier Highway. Full military honors and dove release will conclude the service.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/unitymortuary.com\/obits\/?p=1481\"><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/unitymortuary.com\/obits\/wp-content\/plugins\/thumbnail-for-excerpts\/tfe_no_thumb.png\" class=\"alignleft wp-post-image tfe\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" \/><\/a><p>Turner, Mack &#8211; of Knoxville, formerly of Calhoun, GA, departed this life on Sunday, September 30, 2012.\u00a0He was a veteran of the U.S. Army.\u00a0Mack was a faithful member of Mount Olive Baptist Church for over 30 years.\u00a0He was a graduate of Rule High School and was employed by Knox County School System primarily at Green [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/unitymortuary.com\/obits\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1481"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/unitymortuary.com\/obits\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/unitymortuary.com\/obits\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/unitymortuary.com\/obits\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/unitymortuary.com\/obits\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1481"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/unitymortuary.com\/obits\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1481\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1484,"href":"http:\/\/unitymortuary.com\/obits\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1481\/revisions\/1484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/unitymortuary.com\/obits\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/unitymortuary.com\/obits\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/unitymortuary.com\/obits\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}