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Kenneth Turner II

Las Vegas, Nevada

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Kenneth Turner passed away in Las Vegas, Nevada. The obituary was featured in Las Vegas Review-Journal on August 6, 2010.

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Matsuo Basho (1644-1694)

Old pond.
A frog jumps in --
Plop.


Dru Turner (1951-)

Miss you
My brother Toad.
dru

According to Chinese Legend the Day-lily can sooth sorrows.

August 2
Everything Passes On

The passing days and months
are eternal travelers in time. Haiku

So many good memories will live on even after a friend is gone. Ken was an inspiration for me in many ways. I remember playing his drums before I ever got a set of my own. I used to love hanging out at his house, listening to highly-advanced music upstairs and then going downstairs to jam or play the drums to our favorite records (with the headphones on.) Those were my first practice sessions. The house always seemed to be a cool place to be, which was why the mantra "party at Toad's!"...

CyAnts at a family wedding – Nam Myoho Renge Kyo sister dru

Not the wind, not the flag; mind is moving.

One moon shows in every pool, in every pool the one moon.

Sitting peacefully doing nothing Spring comes and the grass grows all by itself.

When an ordinary man gains knowledge, he is a sage; when a sage gains understanding, he is an ordinary man.

"One in all, All in one, If only this is realized, No more worry about not being perfect!" sister dru

I have sadly inadvertently discovered many LVHS alumni who have passed. I was an early graduate of Dec.1973. However, the older classes were an inspiration to many of us growing up in the early 70's. His father cared for me with all three of my children/deliveries, found me an excellent pediatricain, and took time with me in his office when my mother, who he also cared for, committed suicide and when I decided to begin college in my adult years, I will never forget him telling me, "What...