Betty Sue (Figland) Turner was born July 8, 1944, in Montezuma, Iowa, to Chester and Margaret (Graham) Figland. She grew up with seven siblings on a farm near Searsboro, Iowa. She attended Searsboro schools through tenth grade, which consolidated thereafter, graduating from Lynnville-Sully High School. She entered nursing education in the fall of 1962 at Evangelical School for Nurses in Marshalltown, Iowa. After graduation in May, 1965, she worked at Evangelical Hospital. After meeting on a blind date, she married her husband, James Leroy Turner Sr. on July 31, 1966. Betty left nursing in 1967, to raise their three children. She returned to nursing at the Iowa Veteran’s Home in 1978, where she worked for the next 29 years, retiring in December, 2007.

Betty is survived by three children; Jennifer (Leroy) Himes, of Marshalltown; James Leroy (Jeanne) Turner, of Marion, Iowa; and Terri Turner, of Marshalltown. Betty had seven grandchildren: Daniel Counts, of Marshalltown; Gary (Kimberly) Counts, of Newton; Hannah Himes, of Marshalltown; Shelby (Ryan) Butcher, of Marshalltown; Page Shattuck, of Marshalltown; and Tiffany and Ozzy Smith, of Marshalltown. In addition, Betty had seven great grandchildren: Eli and Noah Butcher; Summer, Nathan and Victoria Counts; Brooklyn Miller; and Blake Dupee. Other survivors included: brother David (Portia) Figland, of Oskaloosa; sister-in-law Linda (Figland) Goemaat; and brother-in-law Jerry (Kathy) Turner; along with numerous nieces, nephews and cousins.

Betty is preceded in death by her parents, Chester and Margaret Figland; her loving husband James Leroy Turner Sr.; and six siblings: Charles Thomas (infant), Margaret Watt, Sheldon Figland, Grace Hoover, Chester Figland and Mary Stevens.