Background
Turner, Gloria Townsend Burke was born on November 16, 1938 in Lumberton, North Carolina, United States. Daughter of John B. and Alice (Haite) Townsend.
Social services association executive
Turner, Gloria Townsend Burke was born on November 16, 1938 in Lumberton, North Carolina, United States. Daughter of John B. and Alice (Haite) Townsend.
Student, University South Carolina., 1974; degree in nursing, York Technology College/University of Southern California, 1976.
Staff nurse, head nurse York General Hospital, Rock Hill, South Carolina, 1976-1978. Head medical department, industrial nursing J.P. Stevens Plant, 1976-1978. Hsop., nursing home auditor South Carolina Medical Foundation, Columbia, 1978-1979.
Executive director Kershaw County Council on Aging, Camden, South Carolina, 1979-1993. Director medical-surgical units Conway (South Carolina) Hospital, 1993-1998. House supervisor Scotland Memorial Hospital, Laurinburg, North Carolina, 1998—2003.
Administrator Active Nursing Service, Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, 2000—2003, Carolina Hospice Care, 2004—2006, retired, 2006. Administrator, clinical director Southern Care, Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, since 2008. Board directors South Carolina Federation Older Americans, 1988-1995.
Member state advisory committee on Alzheimers, Columbia, since 1984. Trustee Kershaw County Memorial Hospital, Camden, 1989-1993. Case manager Carolina Hospice Care in Myrtle Beach South Carolina, 2004-2006.
Congressional nurse Belin Memorial United Methodist Church, Murrells Inlet, South Carolina. Member Camden Chamber of Commerce, Rotary.
Married James Rae Burke, June 3, 1957 (deceased 1974). Children: William H., Sonya Kyle. Married Robert R. Turner, June 23, 1977 (deceased May, 2002).