In the years that followed, Mrs. Turner reminded the President of the bequest and the building that should be created as a result. However, on June 4, 1924, Mrs. Turner died, the whereabouts of the 15 year-old will unknown, the College's claim to her fortune unsubstantiated. More than a week later, the will was finally located in a safety deposit box by investigators, and the College was informed that it had indeed inherited the bulk of her estate, to a total of approximately $330,000.

The paragraphs from Madelon Stockwell Turner's will, concerning Albion College, are as follows:

I also hereby give, devise and bequeath to the Board of Trustees of Albion College at Albion, Michigan, all (except the individual bequests hereinafter specified) of the remainder of my property of every kind and description, both real and personal, wheresoever the same may be situated, to be used by said Board in the erection and completion of a suitable building, wholly fireproof, for the use of one of the chief departments of learning in said institution, but not to be used as a dormitory.

Said building shall bear the inscription and shall be called, in memory of my father and mother: "The Charles F. and Louisa Peabody Stockwell Memorial Hall." Upon said building shall be placed a clock (if the institution shall not already be in possession of one), and if the sum which could reasonably be diverted to this purpose, should warrant it, I desire a chime of bells for this use. Said building shall contain one room, wherein shall be properly arranged my carved rosewood furniture of eleven pieces, and all the pictures of my own work, both drawings and paintings, and all of my china paintings. In this room shall be set a mantel, which shall have as a facing my painted china tiles, designed and used as a mantel facing. In order to do this, the tiles in the mantel of the sitting room of my home shall not be sold but removed and disposed of, as above specified.

In this room shall be placed a glass show case, which shall contain my mother's portrait on china, my father's daguerreotype, our common Family Bible with family records, my father's Greek and Latin Testament, his Greek Lexicon and his Latin Lexicon, my collection of autographs, my pen-illustrated note book on trigonometry, my illustrated book of rebuses, my lace work and embroidery and other articles of needlework, and such articles of my china work as are too small to be hung on the wall, and my wood carving. (Turner File, Albion College Archives)