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Back to Ann Lewis's Table of Contents Jay Turley (1905-1958) The Theodore Turley Family Book, p. 269 Jay was the second son of Charles Dennis and Myrtle Harth Turley. He and his sister Pauline were the only two of six children born to this couple to survive infancy. They lived in Mexico with their parents where Jay was involved in a tragic accident which affected his entire life. At the age of six years, before he started school, he was riding in a wagon from which he fell. He sustained a severe blow to the head which pinched the skull to the brain. From that time forth, Jay was unable to learn or progress emotionally. After his mother died when he was 14, Jay stayed with his father, coming to the United States when Charles Turley left Mexico to work on the Arizona Temple. During the later years of his life, Jay lived for a time with his sister, and then was admitted to the Arizona State Hospital, where he was allowed to come and go freely with delivery men on their routes around the city. Jay was a very quiet man with the sweetness and humility of a young child. Though he never learned to read or reason as an adult, he had an uncanny ability to remember faces, even after long periods of time. He died very quietly on June 29, 1958 in Phoenix, Arizona at the age of 53 and was buried at Heber, Arizona.
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