Helen Leota KOLB^[1]

1920 - 2005  (85 years)

• Name	Helen Leota KOLB  [2, 3, 4, 5, 6]
  Birth	1920	Sumter County, South Carolina
  Gender	Female
  Education	she was a graduate of Sumter Girls High School and Montreat College
  HIST	at death- she had 7 grandchildren, 9 great-grandchildren and a number of nieces and nephews Proposed Change: Lela (I82516) Tree: Singleton and Related Families Link: http://singletonfamily.org//getperson.php?personID=I82516&tree=1 Description: Judging from the names of these three sisters, this Lela, or as her step-children knew her, “Miss Leila,” is the second wife of my grandfather and namesake William Eugene Kolb, born in about 1881 and died in 1937 (Sumter, SC). I knew two of them as Aunt Helen (Helen Kolb Turner) and Aunt Mildred, whose married name escapes me at the moment, step-sisters of my father, Heyward Grady Kolb (1905-1990). Bill Kolb kolb.will@gmail.com  [1, 5]
  Occupation	she was retired as a secretary from USC Sumter, Sumter, South Carolina  [5]
  Religion	she was an active member of First Baptist Church, the Ruth Sunday School Class, the Joy group, and had served for a time as Church Secretary, and as a pianist in the Sunday School Department  [5]
  _UID	8CFD3609E05D4990A485FF5FADC922D2CF22
  Death	16 Dec 2005	Trident Medical Center, Charleston, South Carolina
  Burial	19 Dec 2005	Bethel Baptist Church Cemetery, Sumter County, South Carolina   [5]
  	Elmore-Hill-McCreight FUneral Home & Crematory, Sumter, South Carolina
  Person ID	I98968	Singleton and Related Families
  Last Modified	11 Apr 2019

  
  

  Father	William Eugene KOLB,   b. 22 Mar 1858, Privateer, Sumter County, South Carolina d. 13 May 1937 (Age 79 years)
  Mother	Leila Furman McLEOD,   b. 18 Dec 1892   d. 1 Sep 1981 (Age 88 years)
  _UID	71C50CC9A18E41778031A9A0174D083890CF
  _UID	71C50CC9A18E41778031A9A0174D083890CF
  Family ID	F68574	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	William Horace “Bill” TURNER,   b. 1922, Richmond, Virginia d. 4 Jul 1992, Tuomey Regional Medical Center, Sumter, Sumter County, South Carolina (Age 70 years)
  _UID	09143CEC98BF482BB589B8DF1086B577A66D
  _UID	09143CEC98BF482BB589B8DF1086B577A66D
  Children	1. Reverend Kenneth Alan “Ken” TURNER,   b. 6 Aug 1947, Sumter, Sumter County, South Carolina d. 28 Oct 2011 (Age 64 years)   2. Marion Clyde TURNER   3. Frances Ellen “Ellen” TURNER
  Family ID	F68575	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	23 Mar 2026

  
  

• Notes

  of Sumter, South Carolina [4, 7]

  
  

• Sources

  [S26630] Bill Kolb , Proposed Change: Lela. [S2336] http://groups.msn.com/DescendantsofEphraimPoolKolb/home.htm. [S3642] . [S5753] Temples-Hooks. [S6039] Helen K. Turner. [S16917] Kenneth A. Turner. [S2332] Shelley-Brunson Funeral Home Records for Kolb.