Marion Turley (1912-1989)
(Autobiography)

 The Theodore Turley Family Book, pp.243-244

          I was born January 6, 1912 in Chuichupa, Mexico, the eighth child in a family of twelve, to Hyrum and Pearl Sevey Turley.  My father was a building contractor and farmer.

We migrated from Mexico in July of 1912.  I was six months old and because of exposure, became very ill.  As a result, Mother and I had to stay in El Paso, Texas until I was able to travel. We went to Snowflake, Ariz. for a short time, and then moved to Woodruff, Arizona.  Woodruff was a small town of about two hundred people and a typical small Mormon community.  I had to do a man's work while young: milking cows, plowing, and other things connected with farming.  I had to trap wild animals and sell their hides to finance my youth activities.

I went to Woodruff Elementary School, Snowflake High School, where I played varsity football for three years.  I had three years at the University of Arizona at Tucson; two years at the LDS Business College in Salt Lake City, Utah, and completed a LaSalle Correspondence Course in Accounting out of Chicago.

I held a variety of jobs while preparing for a mission and school including mining, road work, and miscellaneous odd jobs.  After completing school, I worked in the office of Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co., and Utah Power and Light. I then went to work for Griffin Bakery as bookkeeper and salesman.  Then I worked for Cudahy Packing Co., first as timekeeper then as Assistant Traffic Manager.  I then went into the livestock buying field with Cudahy Packing.  After  three years in the livestock department of Cudahy’s, I went to work for Producers Livestock Marketing Assn.  I have been with the Producers for 26 years.  For three years I bought and sold livestock in the Rocky Mountain area, then was transferred to Los Angeles where I was the cow salesman in the Los Angeles stockyards for two years.  Then I was transferred to Brawley, California, to open and manage an office for Producer’s Livestock.  I have been in Brawley for 22 years. I also feed cattle of my own on the side.

I filled a mission to the Northwestern States.  I was the president of the Fourth Quorum of Elders in the Salt Lake Stake; served in the stake YMMIA presidency, Park Stake; Aaronic Priesthood Advisor, Maywood Ward; Branch President of Brawley Branch, during which we built the present ward chapel.  At that time the branch had 160 members,  I was made district president over a combined district which was being prepared for stakehood, later the Yuma Stake.  I served for fourteen years as Yuma Stake President, just recently being released.  While I was stake president, eight of ten chapels in the stake were built.  This included our. new stake house.  I served on the Board of Directors of the Georgia Cattle Ranching and Farming Corporation of the Church.  When Elder Henry D. Moyle, counselor to President McKay and who was President of the Florida Corporation Board passed away, I was called by President McKay to be president of both the Georgia and Florida Corporations.  After I served for year, President N. Eldon Tanner was made president, and I served as Vice President to him.