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Morris "Moe" Turner (view source)
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Upon graduation from Texas Tech with a degree in business administration, Turner was commissioned a second lieutenant in the [[United States Air Force]] and served at Ellington Field in [[Houston, Texas|Houston]]. He was assigned to the combat-ready 40th Bomber Group, 40th Bomber Squadron, [[Strategic Air Command]] under [[General]] [[Curtis LeMay]]. During the [[Cold War]], Turner was a bombardier/navigator aboard a nuclear-armed B-47 jet bomber.<ref name=obit>{{cite web|url=http://www.lubbockonline.com/stories/060308/obi_285726623.shtml|title=Morris Wayne "Mope" Turner obituary|publisher=''The Lubbock Avalanche-Journal''|date=June 3, 2008}}</ref>
Upon graduation from Texas Tech with a degree in business administration, Turner was commissioned a second lieutenant in the [[United States Air Force]] and served at Ellington Field in [[Houston, Texas|Houston]]. He was assigned to the combat-ready 40th Bomber Group, 40th Bomber Squadron, [[Strategic Air Command]] under [[General]] [[Curtis LeMay]]. During the [[Cold War]], Turner was a bombardier/navigator aboard a nuclear-armed B-47 jet bomber.<ref name=obit>{{cite web|url=http://www.lubbockonline.com/stories/060308/obi_285726623.shtml|title=Morris Wayne "Mope" Turner obituary|publisher=''The Lubbock Avalanche-Journal''|date=June 3, 2008}}</ref>
On December 23, 1950, in a ceremony at the Southside [[Church of Christ]], Turner married the former MaryLou Seward, his former Lubbock High School classmate. They couple made their home in Lubbock and had three children: Brenda Sue Paine (deceased), Andrew Ollen Turner (born a. 1954) of Lubbock, and Stephanie Gayle Procopio (born c. 1957) of [[Phoenix]], [[Arizona]]. For more than thirty years, Turner was an active member of Sunset Church of Christ, which sponsors the Sunset International Bible Institute in Lubbock.<ref name=obit/>
On December 23, 1950, in a ceremony at the Southside [[Church of Christ]], Turner married the former Mary Lou Seward, his Lubbock High School classmate. They couple made their home in Lubbock and had three children: Brenda Sue Paine (deceased), Andrew Ollen Turner (born a. 1954) of Lubbock, and Stephanie Gayle Procopio (born c. 1957) of [[Phoenix]], [[Arizona]]. For more than thirty years, Turner was an active member of Sunset Church of Christ, which sponsors the Sunset International Bible Institute in Lubbock.<ref name=obit/>
==Career==
==Career==