Claudette Rawlings was born April 8, 1938, to Fannie McClendon and Wilbur Turner, both of Phenix City, Alabama, where she was the baby of 4 sisters who preceded her in death; Beretha Brown, Catherine Dixon, Martine Howard, and her brother Charles Turner. As a young girl she attended Mt. Mariah Baptist Church (Phenix City, Ala.) […]