Eunice Agatha Turner

Services: A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated on Tuesday, May 9, 2006 at 10:00 AM in Immaculate Conception Catholic Church with Fr. Edward O'Connell from St. Ignatius Catholic Church, Chapel Point, MD officiating and Fr. Peter Alliata from Immaculate Conception Catholic Church, Mechanicsville, MD co-officiating . Interment will follow in St. Joseph's Cemetery, Morganza, MD. Visitation: Viewing/Visitation will be held on Monday, May 8, 2006 from 5 - 8 PM in the Mattingley-Gardiner Funeral Home, with prayers being said at 7:00 PM. Eunice Agatha Turner, 91 of Mechanicsville died May 4, 2006, at her beloved farm on Ryceville Road. Born March 9, 1915, in Maddox, St. Mary's County, she was the daughter of the late James Ernest and Martha Ellen "Long" Graves. Her husband Sydney Anthony Turner preceded her in death in 1952. She was also preceded in death by 10 brothers and sisters: Leo Graves, Madeline Hall, Edwin Graves, Wilmer Graves, Xavier Graves, Helen Hall, Aloysius Graves, Claude Graves, Genevieve Anderson and Alvin Graves, as well as one grandson Timothy Elwood Tippett. "Miss Eunice" as she was affectionately called enjoyed her family and friends. She attended Immaculate Conception Church in Mechanicsville and was true to her faith. She was an excellent cook, loved caring for her yard and flowers and making flower arrangements. She enjoyed traveling with her sisters. In her time she experienced both the rise and fall of tobacco as the primary crop on Maryland farms. In the last years of her life her three children and grandchildren Renee Ward, Karen Welch, Julie Richard and Mark Turner cared for her around the clock. She is survived by her three children James A. Turner and his wife Catherine "Muffie", Mary Helen Tippett, and Sidney "Jerry" Turner and his wife Nancy all of Mechanicsville; one sister Edna "Graves" Sweeney of Bryans Road; a special nephew James R. "Dickie" Graves, his wife Louise and their daughter Jennifer of Mechanicsville; eight grandchildren and fourteen great-grandchildren also survive her. The family received friends at the Mattingley-Gardiner Funeral Home in Leonardtown on May 8. A Mass of Christian Burial was celebrated by Reverend Edward P. O'Connell, S.J. and Reverend Peter R. Alliata on May 9 at Immaculate Conception Church, Mechanicsville. Interment followed at St. Joseph's Cemetery in Morganza. Pallbearers were her five grandsons, Sidney Tippett, Jeffrey Tippett, Mark Turner, David Turner, Steven Turner and nephew Charles Turner. Honorary pallbearers were James R. "Dickie" Graves, Michael Mays, Andrew Welch, Kenneth Welch, Steven Riffle and Glenn Graves. Contributions may be made to the Alzheimer's Association, Southern Maryland Office, P.O. Box 1889, La Plata, Maryland 20646-1889 or to the Dentsville Rescue Squad, 12135 Charles Street, La Plata, Maryland 20646. Arrangements provided by the Mattingley-Gardiner Funeral Home, P.A.