Roy P. Turner Collection

File

Identifier: THR/01/2015.s089

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

This collection is comprised of two copies of Roy Peyton Turner’s thesis on farming the sustainable way. There is also a newspaper clipping of his obituary from the Huntsville Item dated October 10, 2008.

Dates

2008
Undated

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Biographical / Historical

Roy P. Tuner was born on November 9, 1934. He attended Huntsville High School and later went on to Sam Houston State University where he graduated with a degree in Agriculture. He later received a master’s degree in Botany from the University of Arkansas. He taught both high school and college levels. He married Carol Childress in 1982. They had a son, Roy P. Turner, who died on October 14, 2008.