Beatrice Louise Shriver Turner

May 18, 2006

Beatrice Louise Shriver Turner, 84, a homemaker, church member Calvert Memorial
Hospital.

She was born in Baltimore and was a resident of Southeast Washington for most of her
life. She graduated with honors from
Eastern High School (1940). Mrs. Turner
worked for years at an insurance office at Seventh Street and Pennsylvania Avenue
NW, near where the Navy Memorial stands.

In November 1942, she married Richard C. Turner, who was serving in the Army at Fort
Myer, after he obtained the approval of Gen. George S. Patton, who had to authorize
marriages of his subordinates.

While her husband was overseas during World War II, she gave birth to twin boys. One
of them, Richard, died in infancy. She did it all by herself, and she never complained her
husband said. In all the years I knew her, she never had a mean word to say about
anyone.

After the war, her husband coached sports at a public school near their home, and she
volunteered as PTA president, Little League secretary and lunch provider for children in
her Anacostia neighborhood. Schoolboys would pocket their lunch money and turn up
at her kitchen for pickles or peanut-butter sandwiches, her husband said.

Mrs. Turner taught Sunday school at the old Wilson Memorial Church in Washington,
sang in the church choir and was president of the Ladies Society and the Youth Group.
She was later a member of the Capitol Hill United Methodist Church.

She could spell anything, and her handwriting was beautiful, her husband said.

In addition to her husband, of Washington, survivors include two sons, Michael Turner of
Calvert County and Robert Turner of Panama City Beach, Fla.; a sister; five
grandchildren; and five great-grandchildren.