Maurine J. Turley, a former counselor in the Young Women General Presidency of the LDS Church and current president of the national Lambda Delta Sigma sorority, died on Saturday. She was 65.
She was born May 2, 1931, to Eric Alvin Johnson and Melba Morgan Johnson in Logan.A member of the Oak Hills Ward, Bountiful Utah Central Stake, Sister Turley served as both first and second counselor to General Young Women President Ardeth G. Kapp from 1984-87. She then served with her husband, Robert, in presiding over the Arkansas Little Rock Mission from 1987-1990. She has served on the faculty at the University of Utah Institute of Religion and was called as president of Lambda Delta Sigma in November 1993.
Sister Turley has also served as ward Relief Society president, stake Relief Society counselor, ward Young Women president, choir director and seminary teacher. She was recently named recipient of Lambda Delta Sigma's Exemplary Woman Award, given annually to honor a woman who has given service to Lambda Delta Sigma, the community or the Church, and who is an example and an inspiration to others.
Services will be held Wednesday, April 23 at noon at the Bountiful Utah Central Stake Center, 640 S. 750 East. Friends may call at Russon Brothers Bountiful Mortuary, 295 N. Main, on Tuesday, April 22 from 6 to 8 p.m., or from 10:30 to 11:30 a.m. at the stake center on Wednesday. Burial will be in the Bountiful City Cemetery.