Elizabeth City, North Carolina
Margaret Gilliam Turner
1938 — 2024
Margaret Gilliam Turner, born Margaret Eleanor Alley, and also known as "Bug" of Elizabeth City, NC, and previously of Louisburg, NC passed away Sunday morning, March 31, 2024. Born a tiny premature baby on April 12, 1938, Bug was the daughter of the late Johnny and Bessie Flow Alley of Franklin County having lived near Louisburg, NC. As an infant, she was small enough to fit in a saltine cracker box and slept in an open drawer in her mom's dresser. She was indeed a miracle from God since the day of her birth. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband of 32 years, Jimmy Gilliam, and later her husband of 25 years, Carlton Kentwood Turner; a stepson, Mark...