William Turner

My sincere condolences to the Turner family. Always the consumate professional, he will be missed.

We appreciate the time Bill spent with our sons, both members of his orchestra in their high school years. An understanding of classical music, its structure and order, as a way of thinking had an eventual influence, we believe, on their career choices in mathematics related areas. Mary, and family, we are sure you have good memories to carry you through this difficult time, and please trust that you are in our thoughts and prayers.

Dear Mary and Family. We are sending our sympathy and prayers to you at this time. We were saddened to hear of Bill's passing. Having worked with both you, Mary, and Bill in the school district for many years, I feel that we have become good friends even though we no longer live close to each other. I have good memories (and funny) of you both. One of Bill that comes to mind right now is when our son Russ was in the strings program at the middle school and after a concert, Bill stopped to talk to our family and he patted Russ's head and Russ said "Don't mess up my hair or my Mom will kill you!!" Russ had a beautiful head of hair so as a mother "I" kept it perfect; however, Bill's actions made me realize that Russ could comb his own hair and never again did I comb it. I always walked our over weight, but wonderful, Golden Retriever past your house and had many world solving conversations and heard lots of jokes, some from me and some from Bill. May your wonderful memories sustain you and remain in your hearts forever. Bill will certainly be missed by many. Blessings to everyone. Rest in peace Bill. Thoughts and Prayers, Charlie and Rinda Bahr

Please accept my deep and sincere sympathy on Bill's recent passisng. I deeply regret I cannot attend his service as I will not be in Platteville until next week. I remember Bill from our chats enroute to my walking to library...he was always so cordial and we would discuss caregiving and other commonalities. I had the privilege of stopping at the home in early June when brother Michael (Carole/Ron's PHS classmate and Ron and Michael attended Badger Boys State together). He was fairly frail at the time but managed to say hello to me. thoughts and prayers are with the family at this time of loss..my mother, the late Zelma Schuldt, also worked for Dr. Longhorn for many years when he was registrar. Respectfully submitted, Carolyn Schuldt PHS 1960

Thank you Mr. Turner for teaching me what it meant to be a musician. He taught me how to improvise and created in me a desire to play that still exists today. Mary and family please know that my prayers are for you and how greatly I appreciate how Mr. Turner (still have to call him that) was one who made me the musician I am today.