Gainesville Daily Register
Thursday, September 24, 1981

Ada Minerva Turpen, 82, died Wednesday in Whitesboro.  She was born March 21, 1899 in Texas, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W.D. Hudson.  She married Jess Turpen on June 27, 1929 in Marietta, Oklahoma.  She was a homemaker.
Survivors are son, Jesse B. Turpen; daughters, Mrs. Ernest Barnes, Mrs. Oretha Sullivan, and Mrs. Vernie Magher; half-brother, Bill Hudson; sisters, Nettie Russell, Mrs. A.L. Stubblefield and Opal Clark; 15 grandchildren and 17 great-grandchildren.