Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 August 1952 — Page 36

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Plainfield’s’ Busy Taxi Lady’ Finally Gets a Vacation

By QPAL CROCKETT HE woman Plainfield said couldn't take a vacation

is back from one.

“You just can't leave,” Plainfield told Mrs. Thomas Turner, the “Taxi Lady,” when she talked about Tampa,

la “What will we do without vou?" they asked the operator of Plajnfield’s only taxi servjce. ‘It's Mrs, Turner housewives count on to take them to the launderette and the grocery, while husbands use the

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SHE takes Plainfield women to the beauty shop. She makes bank deposits for those unable to leave home. She's on hand for "all “kinds of emergencies such as helping passengers take ciothes off the line when rain starts. Mrs. Turner works hand- inwing with the stork, rushing scores of mothers to Indianapolis hospitals. 8he sat with a nervous father, parked between two small children in the hospital waiting room while a third child was arriving. Mrs. Turner took one passenger home for three days. A mother en route to the maternity ward in Mrs. Turner's cab worried about who would take .care of. her little girl. The “Tax! Lady” took the child home with her. ” ” . DURING SCHOOL months Mrs. Turnér takes children and teachers to and from classes. At Christmas and Easter, stockings and baskets are filled by the “Taxi Lady.” In bad weather in, winter Mrs. Turner carries a basket of cinders and foxhole shovel and “starts out car drivers.”

” ” ” WHEN PLAINFIELD told Mrs. Turner she couldn't leave ghe complained “my life is worse than a doctor's.” She pleaded: “Any kind of business closes up sometimes. After driving a cab 24 hours a day for three years I need two weeks' vacation.” She closed up the ranch home she helped build a half mile south of Plainfleld, and to Tampa she went, taking to beaches instead of the wheel. Mrs. Turner is back home again with that family she's “mighty proud of.” With her in the white house are daughters, Marlene, 16, and Marilyn, 15. Back of them in a cute little house rebuilt from a three-car garage lives the third daughter, Mrs. Patricia Rogers,

BETWEEN TAXI CALLS—Mrs. Thomas Turner takes turn at baby sitting with grandchildren, Trudy Jean Rogers (left) and Terry Jane Rogers.

husband Robert, and their daughters, Trudy Jean, 1, and Terry Jane, 3. » ” » THREE YEARS ago the Tom Turners were living in Brownsburg. Mrs. Turner, a native of Indianapolis, spotted the 10 acres near Plainfield, and she and her husband bought (it. They cut down the briars and bushes that grew head-high, and built the house amid maple, beech and apple trees. Mrs. Turner did the plastering and some carpentry jobs. The living room fronts the house and {s decorated in green and white with pink walls, On the floor of the comfortable home {8 a rag rug. Old-time

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Miss Marilyn Turner, Mrs.

Patty Rogers and Miss Marlene Turner (left to right).

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