{"id":2018,"date":"2014-11-24T11:18:39","date_gmt":"2014-11-24T18:18:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=2018"},"modified":"2014-11-24T11:19:39","modified_gmt":"2014-11-24T18:19:39","slug":"turner-rex-1912","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=2018","title":{"rendered":"TURNER, REX ALLWIN, SR., 1912-2001"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Educator, clergyman. Born&#8211; Feb. 13, 1912, in Corner, Ala. Parents&#8211; Elijah Jesse and Mary Ellen Odessa (Fikes) Turner. Married&#8211; Opal Shipp, December 24, 1931. Children&#8211; Three. Education&#8211; University of Alabama, 1929-1930; Jacksonville State University, 1933-1934; Samford University, A.B., 1936; M.S., 1946; Auburn University, Ed.D., 1952. Principal, Tarrant, Blount County, Ala., 1935-1936. Ordained Church of Christ, 1932; Pastor, Montgomery, Ala. 1936-1942. Co-founder, Montgomery Bible School (later Alabama Christian College), 1942; co-president, 1942-1948; president, 1948-1973. \u00a0President, Alabama Christian School of Religion, 1973-83. Died January 16, 2001.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Who&#8217;s Who in the South and Southwest.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Sermons and Addresses on the Fundamentals of the Faith. Montgomery, Ala.; Alabama Christian College Bookstore, 1972.<\/p>\n<p>Fundamentals of Faith. S.l.; s.n., 1973.<\/p>\n<p>Milestones in the Restoration Movement. S.l.; s.n., 1955.<\/p>\n<p>Principles of School Law and Applications in Alabama&#8217;s Public School System. S.l.; s.n., 1955.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: Educator, clergyman. Born&#8211; Feb. 13, 1912, in Corner, Ala. Parents&#8211; Elijah Jesse and Mary Ellen Odessa (Fikes) Turner. Married&#8211; Opal Shipp, December 24, 1931. Children&#8211; Three. Education&#8211; University of Alabama, 1929-1930; Jacksonville State University, 1933-1934; Samford University, A.B., 1936; M.S., 1946; Auburn University, Ed.D., 1952. Principal, Tarrant, Blount County, Ala., 1935-1936. Ordained Church of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","category-t-v"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2018"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2018\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4058,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2018\/revisions\/4058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}