Obituary of Eunice Elva Connor

Eunice E. Connor (Tooney) was born April 9, 1930, in Marshalltown, Iowa to Valentine Balsley Turpin and Perry Turpin. She died at the age of 92 at St Luke’s Hospital in Duluth on December 2, 2022. Tooney grew up in Aiken and Duluth Minnesota and went to Denfeld High School. She was united in marriage to Eugene A. Connor in Duluth on June 4, 1949 and bore 4 children.

Family and friends knew Tooney to be a very kind, independent, and feisty person. She loved being with her family and friends and cherished her time with them. She loved to dance … She worked all her life while raising her children, first at Sammy’s Pizza then Glass Block department store and Younkers retiring at 72 years old.

Tooney was preceded in death by her parents, brother William Turpin, her husband Eugene Connor, very special friend, Jim Berg and many of her stepbrothers and sisters.

She is survived by her children, Stephanie (John) Micketts, Georgia (Mike) Guite, Eugene “Skip”. (Susan) Connor Jr., and Denise (Curt) Johnson. She has 3 much loved grandchildren: John Micketts Jr., Dr. Dustin (Wendy) Timmons, and Amie Clingman (Chris Bachke) and great grandchildren Ethan Polecheck, Ryan Clingman, Cera Clingman, and Emerson and Brynn

Timmons, and her special “second” family of Jim Berg’s.

Tooney touched the lives of many people and will never be forgotten.

The memorial service scheduled for Thursday, December 15, has been postponed due to weather. Date to be determined.