Cal Turner Sr.
Published 12:00 am Saturday, January 15, 2000
SCOTTSVILLE Hurley Calister Turner, 85, of Scottsville died Nov. 14, 2000, at his home.The Macon County, Tenn., native founded Dollar General Corp., was a graduate of Scottsville High School and attended Vanderbilt University. He opened and managed his first general store in Dupontonia, Tenn., in 1934, founded Turner & Son Wholesale with his father in 1939 and opened the first Dollar General Store in Springfield in 1955. He retired as the corporations chairman in 1989 and was elected to Discount Store News Discounting Hall of Fame in 1994. He was a charter member of South Central Kentucky Junior Achievement Hall of Fame and a member of the board of directors for Farmers National Bank in Scottsville and Dollar General Corp. in Goodlettsville, Tenn. He was a son of the late James Luther Turner and Josiephine Marcrum Turner and the husband of the late Laura Katherine Goad Turner.Funeral will be at 1 p.m. Thursday at Allen County-Scottsville High School Auditorium with burial in Crescent Hill Cemetery. Visitation will be from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Wednesday and from 8:30 a.m. to 11 a.m. Thursday at T.W. Crow & Son Funeral Home.Survivors include two daughters, Laura Jo Turner Dugas of Santa Rosa Beach, Fla., and Katherine Elizabeth Turner Campbell of Scottsville; two sons, Hurley Calister Turner Jr., and James Stephen Turner, both of Nashville, Tenn.; six grandsons; two granddaughters; and 16 great-grandchildren.