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December 2, 1997

SCOTT R. TURNER

Mathematician

Scott R. Turner, 50, a mathematician and a research systems analyst with the University of Maryland's Geography Department since 1988, died of colon cancer Nov. 27 at the home of a sister in Springfield. He lived in University Park.

Mr. Turner came to the Washington area in 1979. Before joining the university, he served on the senior technical staff of Computer Sciences Corp., working at Goddard Space Flight Center and at the U.S. Geological Survey.

He was a member of the Congress on Surveying and Mapping and the Association for Computing Machinery. A blue-water sailor, he sailed the Atlantic Ocean and the Baltic Sea and participated in Maryland Governor's Cup races. He also studied yoga and the piano and was a fan of science fiction.

Mr. Turner, a Milwaukee native and Navy veteran, served aboard the carrier Oriskany in Vietnamese waters during the late 1960s. A mathematics graduate of Youngstown State University, he received a master's degree in geography and cartography from Ohio State University. He also did graduate work in computer science at Johns Hopkins University and in geography at the University of Maryland.

Survivors include his wife, Catherine Turner of University Park; two sons, Christopher Scott Turner of Germantown and Colin Matthew Turner of University Park; and a sister, Elizabeth Haase of Springfield.

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