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Biography

Everett Hoyt Turner, born in Amarillo, Texas in 1935, was orphaned at age seven. His parents didn’t die, they just ran him off. He was raised by relatives in Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, and Arizona. He left school in the tenth grade and joined the Navy. After four years in the Navy he worked as a laborer in the smelter in Amarillo, Texas, construction labor in Tucson, Arizona, labor and machinist apprentice at the mine in San Manuel, Arizona. He married, Sharon Allatt Smith in Tucson in 1956 with whom he had four children, Lincoln, Lance, Layne, and La Chelle. He married Marilyn Teresa Keinrath Parlee in 1973 in Arlington, Virginia with whom he raised three children, Tracy, Teresa, and Robyn. He joined Federal Law Enforcement in 1958 serving with the Border Patrol, Customs Agency Service, Customs Office of Investigation, Drug Enforcement Administration, and Customs Patrol. He served in Calexico, Indio and San Ysidro, California, Rouses Point, New York, Nogales and Lukeville, Arizona, Barcelona, Spain, Chicago, Illinois, and El Paso, Texas. He served in line positions for twenty-eight years, never as an assistant nor deputy. He never suffered in an inspector, or teaching position nor was he assigned to a permanent position in a regional or headquarters office.

Inspiration

Personal history for my children and grand children.