Sharing our Links to the Past
by Wally and Frances Gray

 Clarence Franklin Turley (1900-1999)

 The Theodore Turley Family Book, pp. 294-295

I completed the first five grades of Primary School and left Mexico in July, 1912 at the time of the Exodus, returning with my parents and family in Sept. 1914.  I saw and experienced many happenings during the Revolution, some of them faith-promoting.  I graduated from the Juarez Stake Academy in May, 1919.  I attended the Utah Agricultural College at Logan, Utah one year and on March 10, 1925 I married Anna Tenney in El Paso, Texas.  The ceremony was performed by Bishop Arwell L. Pierce, a civil marriage.  On June 5, 1925 we were married for time and eternity in the Salt Lake Temple by Elder George F. Richards.

I graduated from Texas Chiropractic College in June, 1930 and practiced at Yorktown, Texas; and then, later, twenty years in the Colonies in Mexico where we made our permanent home.  We pioneered the Tinaja, developing the first successful producing apple orchard with its hardships and stress to get irrigation water.  Since our outcome of this horticultural endeavor, others have planted orchards and at present the Tinaja stands out as the extra bread basket of Colonia Juarez.

Our family have been and still are active Church members with strong testimonies of the truthfulness of the Gospel. Three of our children have filled full-time missions and now that Anna and I are alone, we hope to be able soon to keep a full-time missionary in the field all the time.

Children of Clarence Franklin and Anna Tenney Turley:

Anna Lucile Turley Romney, born 1926

Kathleen Turley Hakes, born 1927

Marilyn Joyce Turley Lee, born 1930

Clarence Franklin Turley, Jr., born 1932

Luther Dean Turley, born 1936

Robert Walters Turley, born 1939

Robin Marshall Turley, born 1941

Frederick Eyring Turley, born 1946

Melodee Elizabeth Turley Cooley, born 1948

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