Roy Turner Sr. dies; Episcopal priest, civil rights activist

From The Washington Post-

The Rev. Roy Stanford Turner Sr., 81, an Episcopal priest for 55 years who manned first-aid stations during the 1968 riots in Washington, died Feb. 23 at Potomac Valley Nursing Center in Rockville. He had Alzheimer's disease.

Rev. Turner, who had been active in the civil rights movement since the early 1960s and marched in demonstrations throughout the South with the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., was pastor at St. Luke's Episcopal Church in Bethesda from 1966 to 1979.

He was a founding member of St. Luke's House, which was established to provide housing for patients released from state psychiatric hospitals.

Born in Cheyenne, Wyo., he graduated from the University of Kentucky, where he was a wrestling champion and a catcher on the baseball team.

He earned an additional bachelor's degree from the General Theological Seminary of New York City and studied at Nashotah House Seminary in Wisconsin. He received a master's degree in counseling psychology at Frostburg State College in 1986.

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