[1][2] She received her Ph.D. from Radcliffe College in 1926, with a dissertation titled "Respiratory and Circulatory Tests of Physical Fitness in Healthy Young Women".

[6][7] She attended international conferences, mostly in Europe, and spent a year as a fellow at the University of Copenhagen, sponsored by the AAUW.

[12] Turner was an intimate friend of the psychiatrist and author Esther Loring Richards, and they engaged in a long exchange of written correspondence, which is physically and digitally archived by Mount Holyoke College.

[13][14] In 1937 Abby Howe Turner lived at Mount Holyoke College South Hadley MA.

[2] Mount Holyoke College named the Abbey Howe Turner Award for Excellence in Biology in her memory.