Louise Ingram Turner

TUSCALOOSA Louise Ingram Turner, age 81, of Tuscaloosa, departed this life to be with her Lord on November 14, 2009, at Hospice of West Alabama. Services will be 11 a.m. today, Nov. 17, 2009, at Trinity United Methodist Church with Rev. Wade Griffith officiating. Burial will follow in Tuscaloosa Memorial Park with Magnolia Chapel Funeral Home South directing.

She was preceded in death by her husband of 53 years, James A. "Jimmy" Turner, her parents, Ida Mae Terry Ingram and Dillard Ingram, and her sister, Annette Hubbert.

She is survived by her children, Don Turner, Ric Turner (Trisha) of Tuscaloosa, Glenn Turner (Laurie) of Liberty, North Carolina, and her foster daughter, Marie McCormick of Cleveland, Ohio; her grandchildren, Brian Turner (Mary Jane), Lindsay Turner, and Brittany Turner Denton (John Paul); her great-granddaughter, Farris Turner; her brother, Tommy Ingram (Frances); and numerous nieces and nephews.

Louise met Jimmy Turner in a Spanish class at The University of Alabama where he had entered school after becoming totally blinded while serving with the U.S. Marine Corps on Iwo Jima during World War II. She became his reader while she pursued a degree in teaching. Upon graduation, Jimmy entered The University of Alabama School of Law and Louise continued to help him as a reader. They married in 1948 and never spent so much as a night apart for the next 53 years. While serving as his reader, Louise became so enthralled by the law that she also enrolled in law school. Jimmy graduated in 1952 and she the following year after serving as business manager for the Alabama Law Review. In 1953 they formed the law firm of Turner and Turner where they practiced together until Jimmy's death in June of 2001. Louise continued to practice until her retirement in 2005. She was honored by the Tuscaloosa County Bar Association as a Pillar of the Bar in 2006 and received the Maude McClure Kelly Award from the Women's Section of the Alabama State Bar Association in 2008,

Louise served on the Board of Directors of the Tuscaloosa Youth Emergency Services organization from its inception. She dedicated her life to being the "eyes" of her husband, a mother supreme and confidant to her children, and a true friend to all who knew her. She practiced law with the goal of helping all those who needed her legal skills and gladly mentored lawyers who sought her counsel and assistance. Her life was truly spent in the service of others, and she will be missed by all she touched.

Pallbearers will be Dennis Ingram, Randy Ingram, Tim Ingram, Craig Hubbert, Darrell Hubbert, and Mike Nix.

Honorary pallbearers are John Carlsen, Anna Marie Johnson, Inge McClenny, Sue Morrison, Karen Hitt, Tim and Mildred Terry, Clint and Jean Watson, Judge Jim Guin, Emma Kay Guin, members of the Bench and Bar Association of Tuscaloosa County, employees of Turner & Turner, P.C., and nurses and staff of DCH Regional Medical Center, Northport Medical Center, and Hospice of West Alabama.

In lieu of flowers, the family requests contributions to Hospice of West Alabama, Family Solutions of Tuscaloosa, or the American Cancer Society.