Sara Louise (Turner) Funk

Sara’s Mom and Dad (Abraham Eyman Turner  and Anna (Coulson) Turner moved into Iris and Thomas Turner’s home just south of Portland.

Sara Louise was born Sep. 28, 1917,

Coulson Hill Elementary School.

Sara Louise graduated at age 18 in 1936 from Portland High School (old building on the corner Water and Wayne Street ) in 1936, attended Ball State University 1944-45 and then married Feb 19, 1946 William A. Funk who died Jan. 27, 1998.

Sara Louise enjoyed working at Franks Greenhouse for 6 years after high school, while working she attended  Washington School of Art (home study) for 3 years (1937-1939) (her sister Iris also took some classes at the same time) and received a certificate for completions of a Commercial Art program. Sara worked to support her sister to attend Ball State University,  she then then attended Ball State starting in 1944 were she enjoyed swimming, art and classes until the end of the war, at witch time she was married and started a family.

- Member of West Walnut Church of Christ in Portland Ind, where she played  the violin for many years.

- Member of the Gideons Auxiliary and Ladies Auxiliary VFW : 2840

- Lifetime resident of Portland Indiana.

1. -Lifelong hobbies include watercolor painting, drawing, flowers, gardening, cats and photography.
   

2. -Sara died Dec. 6th 2007 at 10:15am, Age 90, Resident of Crown Point assisted living in Portland Ind.
   

Service:

Keats wrote, "A thing of beauty is joy forever."

Sara Louise devoted her life to creating things of beauty. She is an artist, a musician, a gardener. To get a card from her was to get personal art, impressive art hand drawn by her. She cared enough to send better than the very best!  Hanging on the Wall of Sara Louise Funk's room at Crown Pointe is a painting she did of a beautiful young woman with a program for the 1937 fashion show in hand. That painting was but one of many she did, but it was such a reference point on her that I can't help but think of it when I go through her life.

 

Sara Louise was the oldest of her generation in the Turner household.  Her brother Charles recounts to me that she walked with him and her younger sisters two miles to school in the morning and two miles back in the afternoon. He said he doesn't recall many harsh conflicts, rather a bonding that took place from that long walk.  I still provokes pleasant memories.  From 1937 until 1944 Sara Louise Turner worked in Frank's greenhouse. She never fell out of love with flowers and plants from that point on, and she is remembered for her flowers, vegetables, fruits, and hummingbird feeders.

 

Sara was a student at Ball State in 1944 and 45.  I don't know if she had been the subject in her painting of the beautiful woman at the fashion show, but I know that William A funk considered her a beautiful young woman, because they were married February of 1946.  Glen, Merritt and Carolyn were the three children born to them,

 

Story about Merritt, one about Glen and one about Carolyn.

 

Some people just spend life. Sara Louise invested hers.  Her children appreciated higher education.  Her church benefited from years of volunteer labor and music.  The Gedeons, the VFW Auxiliary, and others are the beneficiaries of her investments.  Her children have risen and called her blessed.

Indeed Sara Louise's entire life has been a thing of beauty. It is a joy forever.