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Deaths
Thomas Roy Bales
Mr. Thomas Roy Bales, 94.
of Cumniing died Saturday,
May 1, 2004. He was a mem¬
ber of Pleasant View Baptist
Church. He was preceded in
death by his wives, Edna
Hulsey Bales and Flora
Rogers Bales and a son, Billy
Bales.
Survivors include daugh
ters and sons-in-law,
Katherine and Harold Major
and Kathleen and B.J. O’Neal,
all of Cumming; three grand¬
children; . two great-grandchil¬
dren; two great-great-grand¬
children; sisters-in-law, Sara
Lanham of Lithia Springs,
Dorothy Willis of Mableton,
Mildred Bales of Alpharetta
and Kathleen Rogers of
Cumming; brothers-in-law.
Amon Davis of Alpharetta and
Tribble Hulsey of Cumming.
Other relatives also survive.
Funeral services were held
Tuesday, May 4, at Pleasant
View Baptist Church with
Revs. Bud Sutton, Robert
Martin, Jerry McCormick, and
Davey Bales officiating.
Interment followed in the
Pleasant View Baptist Church
Cemetery.
Ingram Funeral Home was
in charge of the arrangements.
Forsyth County News
May 5, 2004
Janis Lind Carroll
Mrs. Janis Lind Carroll,
49, of Cumming died Friday,
April 30, 2004.
Survivors include husband,
Jim Carroll of Cumming; par¬
ents, Russell and Dorothy
Lind of Gainesville; brother,
Bruce Lind of Flowery
Branch; nephews, Stephen.
Michael, David and Daniel
Lind, all of Flowery Branch;
step-sons and daughters-in
law, Randy and Linda Carroll,
John and Kathy Carroll; step
grandchildren, Heath
Scharnhorst and Morgan
Carroll; parents-in-law, James
and Nell Carroll; brother-in
law and sister-in-law, Larry
and Nancy Carroll.
Memorial services were
held Tuesday, May 4 with Dr.
Matt McGowan and Rev. Tony
Smith officiating.
In lieu of flowers, those
wishing to make a contribu¬
tion in memory of Janis to her
favorite charity, Zola Levitt
Ministries Inc., Box 12268,
Dallas, TX 75225-0268, or a
charity of your choice.
Ingram Funeral Home
were in charge of the arrange¬
ments.
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May 5, 2004
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Eileen Patricia DePalma
Mrs. Eileen Patricia
DePalma, 83, of Cumming
died April 28, 2004. She was a
native of Canada and had
resided in Cumming since
2000. She worked as secretary
of the zoning board of Long
Beach Township, N.J. and was
past treasurer of the Brant
Beach, N.J. Yacht Club. She
was a member of St.
Brendan’s Catholic Church in
Cumming and St. Ann
Elizabeth Seton Church in
Whiting, N.J. She was preced¬
ed in death by her husband,
Arthur DePalma.
Survivors include daughter,
Nora DePalma of Cumming;
brother, Brian Clemens of
Ottawa, Canada; three nieces
and one nephew.
Memorial services will be
held Saturday, May 15, at 10
a.m. at the All Saints Chapel
of St. Ann Elizabeth Seton
Church in Whiting, N.J. with a
reception immediately follow¬
ing at the Crestwood Village
.One Clubhouse in Whiting,
N.J.
In Lieu of flowers, please
send contributions to The
National Institute of Mental
Health Gift Fund, 6001
Executive Blvd., Room 8104,
MSC 9655, Bethesda, MD
208-9655 (301) 443—3703, or
to the Deborah Hospital
Foundation, P.O. Box 820,
Browns Mill, N.J. 08015,
(609) 893-3372.
McDonald and Son
Funeral Home and Crematory
are in charge of the arrange¬
ments.
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May 5, 2004
Sierra Ashley Dunford
Sierra Ashley Dunford,
infant daughter of Richard
Wayne and Stephanie Thaxton
Dunford of Cumming, died
Friday April 30, 2004.
She was preceded in death
by grandfather Gerald
Thaxton.
Other survivors include sis¬
ter, Paige Thaxton; brother,
Hunter Thaxton, both of
Cumming; grandparents
Connie Brock of Dawsonville,
Ann Hall, Randy Dunford,
both of Cumming; several
aunts, uncles, cousins and
other relatives also survive.
Services were held
Monday, May 3, at the
Alpharetta City Cemetery with
the Rev. Jeremy W. Vance offi¬
ciating.
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Nettie Bell Estes
Mrs. Nettie Bell Estes, 84,
of Cumming died Sunday,
May 2, 2004. She was a mem¬
ber of Friendship Baptist
Church. She was preceded in
death by her husband, Chap
Estes, and grandson, Thomas
Bryan Estes.
Survivors include son and
daughter-in-law. Tommy and
Brenda Estes of Cumming;
grandchildren, Tony and Gina
Estes, Ted and Joyce Estes, all
of Cumming; great grand¬
daughter Rachel Estes; several
other relatives also survive.
Funeral services were held
Tuesday, May 4, at Ingram
Funeral Home Chapel with
Rev. Jackie Stewart, Harold
Bottoms, Ted Estes and Tony
Estes officiating.
Ingram Funeral Home was
in charge of the arrangements.
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May 5, 2004
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phone, which was compara¬
tively rare in 1994. She lav¬
ished gifts — an $1,100 pair
of ostrich skin boots, a $500
leather jacket — on her
Forsyth firefighter boyfriend,
Randy Thompson.
Meanwhile her Cobb
police officer husband, Glenn
Turner, worked several jobs,
his friends testified.
it t He works a lot. She
spends a lot,”’ is how Glenn
Turner explained the couple’s
financial situation, his friend
Cpl. David Dunkerton of
Marietta said Monday.
When Turner went shop¬
ping around Thanksgiving
1994 with Thompson's sister,
Angie Bollinger of Cumming,
she purchased ostrich skin
boots for Thompson. Later
that day. Turner purchased a
camcorder and accessories at
Circuit City in Marietta,
Bollinger said. To pay the
bill. Turner reportedly
whipped out a stack of credit
cards secured with a thick
rubber band.
"I was kind of taken aback
because I’d never seen any
body with that many credit
cards,” Bollinger said,
Turner told Bollinger that
her money was inherited from
a deceased grandmother,
Bollinger said. Bollinger also
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'“If you find me like that,
it’s not suicide. If you find
me like that, it’s Lynn,’”
Fisher said Glenn Turner told
him.
At the time, Fisher said
he did not take the comment
very seriously, thinking that
Glenn Turner was just blow
ing off steam.
The defense pointed out
that Fisher did not mention
that incident during a 2002
interview with Special Agent
David King, the Georgia
Bureau of Investigation
(GBI) lead detective in the
Turner case.
Other police officer
friends of Glenn Turner testi
fied Monday that he believed
his wife would kill him.
Two months before his
death in March 1995, Glenn
Turner reportedly told fellow
motor patrolman Cpl. David
Dunkerton during a serious
conversation that Lynn
Turner was capable of mur
der.
He told me if anything
happened to him that I need
ed to look at Lynn,”
Dunkerton testified Monday
before the jury.
Dunkerton said he told
Glenn Turner he was crazy to
testified Lynn told her Glenn
Turner died in the line of duty
— before his actual death by
poisoning in 1995.
Turner spent the Christmas
of 1994 with Thompson and
his parents in Warner Robins,
not far from where the current
trial is being conducted,
Thompson’s father, Perry
Thompson, testified Monday
that Turner, who he under
stood to be divorced at the
time, gave him and his wife
Juanita Thompson a Kenwood
stereo system for Christmas.
"It’s not the kind of thing I
could have bought. I couldn’t
afford it,” Perry Thompson
said.
In September 1995, after
Glenn Turner s death, Randy
Thompson and Lynn moved
into a $170,000 home in
Forsyth County. Perr y
Thompson said the house was
furnished with a big screen tel¬
evision and leather furniture.
“They were furnishings we
were not used to,” Perry
Thompson said.
When Perry Thompson
cleaned out his son’s apart¬
ment following his poisoning
death in January 2001, the
$1,000 cockatoo Turner pur¬
chased for Thompson was still
in his cage at the residence,
the father said.
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think his wife would commit
such a crime, even in the
midst of hardship. The
Turners had marital difficul¬
ties, as all friends of Glenn
and Lynn Turner have testi
fied.
Three witnesses, all close
friends of Glenn Turner, said
Monday that Glenn Turner
slept on the couch shortly
after the couple married in
August 1993.
Glenn Turner reportedly
told his friends, Cobb police
man Mike Archer, personal
friend Jeff Mack and
Dunkerton, that he and his
wife had sexual intercourse
only twice since their nup
tials.
He said he was more her
roommate than her husband,”
Dunkerton said.
Glenn Turner also told
Dunkerton and others he
planned to move out and file
for divorce.
He looked at me and
said, 'A man can only take so
much...I don’t think I can
take this any more,’” Archer
said on the witness stand.
“He said he wanted to
start going out and have fun
again,” Archer said.
Archer said he immedi-
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changed, registrar says
By Antonia Kertwig-Benson
Staff Writer
The Forsyth County voter
registrar is advising residents to
once again pay attention to their
new voter registration cards
because precinct boundaries
have changed, again.
As Forsyth County grows,
its 68,000 registered voters have
had to make changes as well,
“Everything changes rapidly
_ j t ’ s a challenge,” said Brant
Meadows, Republican
appointee to the board of elec¬
tions, about the recent changes.
“The last five elections I
voted in different precincts each
time” he said
Recently the board of elec
tions amended the Johns Creek,
Chestatee and Windermere
precincts.
According to election regis¬
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ately suspected Lynn Turner
in the sudden death of his
close friend, a suspicion he
told a supervisor an hour
after Glenn Turner’s death.
“I told him there was no
way he could be dead. She
[Lynn] had to have some¬
thing to do with it,” Archer
testified Monday.
As Glenn Turner’s super¬
visor, Archer said Glenn
Turner rarely missed work.
The three days before his
death, Glenn Turner called in
sick, Archer said.
When he called Archer at
the precinct the night before
his death, Glenn Turner
reportedly said he was feel¬
ing a little better and might
work the next day.
A childhood friend of
Lynn Turner, Stacy Hendrix
Roaderick, testified Monday.
Lynn told Roaderick she fed
Glenn Turner green Jell-O,
his favorite kind, the morn¬
ing of his death.
Due to frequent vomiting
and diarrhea, popsicles and
Jell-0 were all Glenn Turner
reportedly could keep down.
When Lynn returned from
running errands around 3:30
p.m., Glenn Turner was dead
in his bed.
son for the recent changes is to
avoid “splits,” which occur
when portions of precincts are
in two different congressional,
state Senate or House districts.
“We tried to move sections
to remove some of the splits we
had,” Smith said.
To avoid a split, the board of
elections has increased the size
of the Johns Creek precinct by
adding a portion from the
southeastern part of the South
Forsyth precinct.
“It should make it more
convenient for those people,”
Smith said.
Not only has the board
redrawn the precinct lines, it
also moved the polling location.
“We moved it [the locale]
from the Lowe’s to Johns Creek
Baptist Church,” he said.
According to Smith, voters
should expect their registration
cards by the first of June.