Background
Seaman First Class Henry Aurthur Turner, United States Navy (10/28/1922 - 1/8/1996) is an African American sailor born in
Dover, Oklahoma to Rufus and Estella, and lived in Topeka, Kansas as well as Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He was later a member of
the American Legion Jordan Patterson Post #319 and retired from the Department of Menninger Foundation (according to donor).
The donor, Normajean Sims, is the daughter of S1/c Turner's sister, Leona M. Andrews.