TURNBULL, BENJAMIN
Richmond Times-Dispatch (VA) - Friday, July 15, 2016
TURNBULL, Benjamin Walton, a respected trust and investment officer for 35 years and veteran of World War II, died in Richmond on July 14, 2016, at age 96. A resident of Richmond for 67 years and married for 54 years to the late Ellen Montgomery Phlegar of Norfolk, he is survived by his son, Robert Mosby Turnbull and his wife, Anne, of Richmond, his son, Benjamin Harrison Turnbull and his wife, Cindy, of Charlotte, N.C.; and his daughter, Sarah Walton Turnbull Jones and her husband, David, of Eagle, Idaho. Walton had six grandchildren, Robert Turnbull (Katy), Edward Turnbull (Sarah), Katherine Turnbull Rullman (Nate), Benjamin Turnbull (Madison), Emily Jones and Stuart Jones; and four great-grandchildren, Katherine, Rand and Clara Turnbull and Sally Rullman. He was preceded in death by his parents, Charles D. and Pearl B. Turnbull of Lawrenceville, Va. (later Norfolk); and his siblings, Maree T. Garland, Charles D. Turnbull Jr. and William C. Turnbull. Born in Leesburg, Va., on January 7, 1920, Walton graduated from Washington and Lee High School in Montross and worked on the tobacco market with the O. W. Dudley Tobacco Company. During World War II, he served in the U.S. Army Air Corps, Ninth Air Force, with the 387th Bomb Group stationed in Chipping Ongar, England, and later in France. He was Line Chief with the rank of Master Sergeant for the 558th Squadron in the "Tiger Stripe" B-26 Marauder group and engineer gunner on bombing missions. For meritorious service, he was awarded the Bronze Star Medal and also won the Air Medal and one Oak Leaf Cluster. After the war, he graduated from the College of William & Mary and was inducted into Phi Beta Kappa. He did post-graduate work at Rutgers University Graduate School of Banking and Darden Business School at the University of Virginia. He began his banking career in Richmond in the Trust Department of State-Planters Bank and Trust Company and was promoted to higher positions as the bank became United Virginia Bank (UVB, later Crestar Bank, now SunTrust). He served as chairman of the board of Capitoline Investment Services at UVB, president of the UVB Foundation, chairman of the Committee on Trust Legislation for the Virginia Bankers Association, and member of the Board of Regents of the National Trust School of the American Bankers Association. He retired in 1984 as executive vice-president of United Virginia Bank's Trust and Investment Group and then served as executive director of the Cabell Foundation until 1993. A community leader with an emphasis on education and history, Walton was a trustee of the Church Schools in the Episcopal Diocese of Virginia, Virginia Historical Society, Darden Business School at the University of Virginia, Mason School of Business at William & Mary, Virginia Commonwealth University, Historic Richmond Foundation, and Children's Home Society of Virginia. He was a board member of several corporations and an active participant in many civic associations. He served on the Vestry of St. Stephen's Episcopal Church and was a member of the Country Club of Virginia and the Society of the Cincinnati in the State of Virginia. He was particularly proud of his involvement in the formation of the VCU Massey Cancer Center and the Westminster Canterbury Foundation. (Continued...) TURNBULL (Con't.) After his retirement, he enjoyed time with his family, travel and family genealogy. The family wishes to thank the caring staff at Cedarfield and his devoted friend, Eleanor Gordon, for their dedication and attention to Walton. A memorial service will be held at 3 p.m. Monday, July 18, at St. Stephen's Episcopal Church, 6000 Grove Avenue. Burial in Hollywood Cemetery will be private. In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made to the Virginia Historical Society, P.O. Box 7311, Richmond, Va. 23221-0311, or to the Angel Fund at Cedarfield, 2300 Cedarfield Pkwy., Richmond, Va. 23233.