Iris Kelso
| Iris Turner Kelso | |
|---|---|
| Born |
December 10, 1926 Philadelphia, Mississippi, U.S. |
| Died | November 2, 2003 (aged 76) New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S. |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater |
Philadelphia High School |
| Occupation |
Journalist: |
| Years active | 1948-1996 |
| Political party | Democrat |
| Spouse(s) | Robert N. Kelso (married 1960–1972, his death) |
Philadelphia High School
Ward-Belmont Junior College
Journalist:
Political columns
Human-interest essays
Iris Turner Kelso (December 10, 1926 – November 2, 2003) was a Mississippi-born journalist best known for her association with three newspapers in New Orleans, Louisiana, culminating with the remaining publication, New Orleans Times-Picayune.
Iris Turner was born in Philadelphia in Neshoba County in central Mississippi, a community which received national attention in the summer of 1964 because of the murder there of three young civil rights workers. Her mother, Lois Molpus Turner, died when Iris was only four, and she was reared by her father, Homer Brown Turner, her grandparents, and other extended family. She graduated from Philadelphia High School, the then Ward-Belmont Junior College in Nashville, Tennessee, and Randolph-Macon Women's College in Lynchburg, Virginia, where she majored in English. She returned to Mississippi in 1948 to work on the staff of the Hattiesburg American in Hattiesburg in southern Mississippi. Though she covered small-town news in Hattiesburg, her interest lay in politics. Her family had long been active in reform Democratic politics; indeed Homer Turner had been a colonel on the staff of Governor Hugh L. White of Mississippi, who served from 1936 to 1940 and again from 1952 to 1956.
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