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===Marriage and family=== Turner was married on May 11, 1963, to [[Geills Turner|Geills McCrae Kilgour]] (b. 1937) who was then a [[Systems engineering|systems engineer]] with [[IBM]],<ref>{{Cite news|title=Former PM John Turner was old Liberalism's darling and its final, flawed champion|url=https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-obituary-john-turner-pm-for-79-days-was-old-liberalisms-darling/|access-date=September 21, 2020|archive-date=September 20, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200920143104/https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-obituary-john-turner-pm-for-79-days-was-old-liberalisms-darling/|url-status=live}}</ref> and the great niece of Canadian Army doctor [[John McCrae]], the author of what is probably the best-known First World War poem, "[[In Flanders Fields]]", and sister of [[David Kilgour]], a long-time Canadian [[Member of Parliament (Canada)|Member of Parliament]].<ref name=nyt1984>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1984/06/18/world/man-in-the-news-new-leader-for-canada-john-napier-turner.html |title=MAN IN THE NEWS; NEW LEADER FOR CANADA: JOHN NAPIER TURNER |newspaper=The New York Times |date=June 18, 1984 |first=Douglas |last=Martin |access-date=October 19, 2014 |archive-date=October 27, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141027231020/http://www.nytimes.com/1984/06/18/world/man-in-the-news-new-leader-for-canada-john-napier-turner.html |url-status=live }}</ref> The Turners have a daughter named Elizabeth and two sons: Michael and Andrew.<ref name="darling"/> Their second son, David, died in 2021. The Turner children attended [[Rockcliffe Park Public School]], in [[Ottawa]].<ref>{{Cite book|last=Litt|first=Paul|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mMdjxPPLdBsC&q=john+turner+rockcliffe+park+public+school&pg=PA17|title=Elusive Destiny: The Political Vocation of John Napier Turner|date=October 21, 2011|publisher=UBC Press|isbn=978-0-7748-2267-1|language=en|access-date=September 21, 2020|archive-date=September 22, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200922224912/https://books.google.com/books?id=mMdjxPPLdBsC&newbks=0&printsec=frontcover&pg=PA17&dq=john+turner+rockcliffe+park+public+school&hl=en|url-status=live}}</ref> All three sons attended [[Upper Canada College]], in [[Toronto]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=Upper Canada College {{!}} Former prime minister John Turner talks to grandson's Form 5 class|url=https://archive.ucc.on.ca/2016/10/12/former-prime-minister-john-turner-talks-to-grandsons-grade-5-class/|access-date=September 21, 2020|website=archive.ucc.on.ca|archive-date=September 22, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200922224917/https://archive.ucc.on.ca/2016/10/12/former-prime-minister-john-turner-talks-to-grandsons-grade-5-class/|url-status=live}}</ref>
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