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This memorial website was created in the memory of my little buddy, Stephen Turney a.k.a Antioch who was born in Dickson, Tennessee on December 23, 1985 and passed away on June 29, 2005 in Nashville, TN at the age of 19.
I want to tell you about the remarkable kid whom I miss more than anything in the world!
I first met Stephen when he was about 13 years old. I had a houseboat in the same marina where his Father had his boat. Stephen and his buddy (also named Steven) had spent most of the day trying to chat up two girls who were visitng the marina and staying the week-end on a boat next to mine. When the girls had to return to the boat for the night I heard a knock at my door and there stood this tall skinny kid who without shame or embaressment said " Hey my name is Stephen and me and my buddy here are trying to hook up with these two girls, you mind if we hang out on the front of your boat for awhile so we can talk to them?" I had to chuckle at that and let him do what he had to do.
And that was the start of what later became a mentoring relationship.
Stephen was always into hip-hop as a teen. For a tall skinny white kid he could hang with the best of them and dressed the part and spoke the lingo. This was just his exterior though. He loved hip-hop and wanted to rap for a living. The unfortunate thing was that most adults were turned off by what they perceived to be a thug exterior. If they had taken the time to get to know him they would have found a big and pure heart. He was not a thug. He was not a gang-banger. And he was not evil. And you could never ask for a truer friend, if Stephen liked you, look out.
But, Stephen was a kid who for some reason seemed to have a hard time choosing his friends wisely. I gave him a place to live last year when he moved from his parent's home. He was on juvenile probation because he took the rap for a buddy of his (an adult) who had broken into a car at work. I was driving him back and forth to his Probation Officer weekly and had given him a job cleaning tour buses for me (I work in the music indutry) so he could make serious money and get his fines and court cost's paid and get off probation. He got his fines paid and got off probation within a couple of months. At the time of his death he was working on getting his license re-instated and had even talked seriously with a recruiter about joining the Army.
Like I said before Stephen loved hip-hop one of the highlights of his young life was when I took him and two of his friends to Chattanooga last year on one of the tour buses to see the Twista show. Twista was a client of the bus company and Stephen got to not only see the show but live like a rock star on the bus going to the show and coming back. He got to hang out backstage before the show started, and after Twista got off stage he invited them backstage to hang out some more where he signed autographs and took pictures with them. I will never forget how excited he was about that night. He talked about it for weeks afterward. It was just some small thing that I wanted to do to encourage his dreams
On June 29, 2005 at 7:30am Stephen was killed in a head on collision when the driver of the car he was riding in crossed the center line coming out of a curve at a high rate of speed. The driver was charged with vehicular homicide by intoxication.
Stephen was like a baby brother to me. I just turned 43 in June (one week to the day before he died) and this kid was truly my best friend. I loved him like a son and I miss him terribly. I cried everyday for two weeks and I still cry today. I have never experienced so much pain in my life. It's as if a piece of me died along with him on June 29th
He was a good kid who had great parents who raised him to be respectful of others and to be kind and caring.
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Hey Buddy! :) / Rick Smith
Well it's nearly that time of the year that we remember how much we love ya and miss ya!
Four years next week and it seems like a lifetime since I saw you smiling face.
I really miss you and wish you were still here with us. I know you are happ...
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Stephen, there are so many things to say... / Vanessa Wetterau (stepcousin. & friend. )
Memories of Stephen:
I can still remember a bunch of silly things that Stephen Jennifer and I did and said as kids. I remember that one of his favorite movies was space jams and he was into sports and hiphop. Because the song i belie...
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Happy Birthday Sweetie / Granny
Hi Baby:
We all miss you so very much this time of year. So much has changed this year. But so much will never change. We will always miss you. So many memories of you at Christmas will come up. I know how m...
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Sending Birthday Wishes To Stephen! / Carol Pizzi (Angel Debbie's Mom )
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Happy Birthday Little Buddy / Rick
Just wanted to say Happy Birthday and a Merry Christmas in Heaven!
I miss you buddy and love you so much. |
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JOY AND PEACE / BILLIE(GRMA) TO ANGEL CAYDEN WINCE Read >> |
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Sending Thanksgiving Wishes Your Way / Dianne/Mom Of Angel Nicholas White (Connected by Angels ) Read >> |
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house / Jim (step dad ) Read >> |
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Thought about you / Granny Read >> |
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What can you say / Jim (stepdad) Read >> |
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rickmuz@mac.com / Rick Smith, Jr Read >> |
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Happy Mother's Day / Patty~Mom To Angel Nicholas Zanfini Jr. ((Angel Friend) ) Read >> |
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Happy Valentines Day Stephen! / Janicemom2Jennifer Pokerwinski (angel friend ) Read >> |
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Happy Valentines Day To all / Patty~Mom To Angel Nicholas Zanfini Jr. (( Angel Friend ) ) Read >> |
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Another Birthday,Christmas and New Year / Granny Read >> |
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Stephens News Article (Dickson Herald 7/01/05)
Friday, 07/01/05
Dickson native killed in crash
By Nicole Iddings-Young
Staff Writer
A 19-year-old Dickson County native was killed in a head-on collision on Mt. View Road in Nashville early Wednesday morning.
The crash occurred around 7:30 a.m., police said.
Stephen Ray Turney of Antioch was not wearing his seat belt and died at Southern Hills Medical Center as a result of injuries sustained in the crash, police said.
Turney was riding in the passenger seat of an Oldsmobile Delta 88 driven by Nicholas Smith, 19, of Conifer Place in Nashville.
Smith has been charged with vehicular homicide by intoxication in the case, police said.
According to a Metro Nashville Police Department news release, Smith was driving southbound on Mt. View Road when the accident occurred.
The news release said he was speeding, and he was in the wrong traffic lane when he collided head-on with a northbound F-150 pickup truck.
The driver of the F-150, Amy Flowers, 28, of Mount Juliet and her four-month-old son were unhurt in the incident. Flowers was wearing a seat belt and her son was in a child restraint seat.
Smith, who, like Turney, was not wearing a seat belt, sustained serious injures in the crash and was taken to Vanderbilt Medical Center, according to the release.
After the accident, Smith told officers he was too drunk to drive, the release said. He has since been released from Vanderbilt Medical Center.
Funeral services for Turney are 11 a.m. Saturday from the chapel of Taylor Funeral Home in Dickson. He will be buried in the Marvin Addition of Dickson Union Cemetery.
Turney was a surveyor with Complete Survey Company in Nashville. |
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Stephens Obituary
Stephen Ray Turney
Funeral services for Stephen Ray Turney, 19, will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday, July 2, 2005 from the chapel of Taylor Funeral Home in Dickson with Father Stephen Gideon officiating. Interment will follow in the Marvin Addition of Dickson Union Cemetery.
Stephen Ray, a surveyor with Complete Survey Company in Nashville, died Wednesday, July 29, 2005 at Southern Hills Medical Center in Nashville. He was born in Dickson County on Dec. 23, 1985. He was a member of St. Christopher's Catholic Church.
Survivors include his mother and stepfather, Sandra and Jim Wetterau of Dickson; father, Steve Turney of Nashville; brother, Eric Coates of Hickman County; sisters, Jennifer Wetterau and Holly Wetterau, both of Dickson; maternal grandparents, Robert Boatman of McEwen and Sue Ashley of Winchester; paternal grandmother, LaVeta Turney of Dallas, Texas; and several aunts and uncles. |
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