An activist who was unlike any other, the Rev. Davette Turk, died last week at age 87, after a long battle with dementia. She was a champion of civil rights and human rights. Rev. Turk will be missed.
Turk was a lifetime champion of civil rights and human rights from urban Jacksonville to remote regions of Africa.
At the opening of a “Unity Week” in 1996, promoting interracial togetherness to bring white and Black churches together, Turk said, “Muslims, Christians and Jews have prayed to the one Father and God in heaven and said, ‘Let us do something together that can start a spark in this city and certainly light the nation.’”
Always outspoken, her most memorable quote was when she said, “I believe in shaking things up. Jesus shook a lot of people up, and I believe in shaking people up for the sake of love.”Mother Davette, as I called her, and her husband, Richard, who was also an Episcopal priest, were family friends to my wife, Gina, and me for many years .. we were blessed to have known them both.
I have to tell you my favorite memory of Davette was at a town hall meeting Channel 4 hosted with presidential candidate Bill Clinton during the 1992 campaign. He took questions from a studio audience and from viewers for 2 hours ... when the broadcast was over, our engineers were helping him out of his wired-up microphone and earpiece.
A celebration of Reverend Turk’s life will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday, Aug. 19, at All Saint’s Episcopal Church on Hendricks Avenue.
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