An Elvis Presley enthusiast who has helped promote the late singer’s ties to his Mississippi hometown will take over as head of a memorial foundation in Tupelo.
Roy Turner was named executive director of the Elvis Presley Memorial Foundation, which oversees the Presley birthplace site, news outlets reported Monday.
Turner wrote a companion booklet to the 2007 DVD release, “Tupelo’s Own Elvis Presley,” which was a concert film documenting Presley’s 1956 performances at the Mississippi-Alabama Fair and Dairy Show in Tupelo. Turner was also had a guiding hand in the writing of the 2004 biography “Elvis and Gladys” by Elaine Dundy, which details the life of Presley’s mother and her relationship to the superstar.