Betsy Larisa Turner

Betsy recently graduated from Ooltewah Middle School, where she was honored with the citizenship award at graduation. She was also a past recipient of the county-wide award for courage when she attended Wallace A. Smith Elementary School.

Betsy gave her life to Jesus Christ at age 8 and was a member of Ooltewah Baptist Church. She faced many obstacles in her life, but never complained about them. Instead, she had a gift for bringing people together and giving them a glimpse of God’s love through her. Betsy touched so many lives in her brief 15 years by her giving nature, her mercy and her genuine concern for all she met to know Jesus.

She is survived by her father, Phillip “Phil” Turner of Chickamauga, Georgia; her mother, Brenna Lype, her stepfather, Bob Lype, her brothers, Bryson and Braden Lype all of Ooltewah; her paternal grandparents, Rev. & Mrs. C. Russell Turner, serving the Lord as missionaries in the Cayman Islands; her maternal grandparents, Robert and Helen “Betsy” Eskew of Fairburn, Georgia; her step-grandmother, Margaret Lype of Rogersville, Tennessee; and a number of loving uncles, aunts and cousins.

Funeral services will be held at 1:00 p.m. on Friday, July 30, 2004 at Ooltewah Baptist Church with Rev. Tony DeYoung and Rev. C. Russell Turner officiating. Interment will follow at Hamilton Memorial Gardens. The family will receive friends Thursday from 4-8 p.m. at the Valley View Chapel. Memorial contributions may be made to Baptist International Missionaries (BIMI) @ P.O. Box 9215, Chattanooga, Tennessee 37412, account number 130 or to Ooltewah Baptist Church Youth Department @ 5514 Main Street, Ooltewah, Tennessee 37363. Arrangements are by Chattanooga Funeral Home, Crematory & Florist, 7414 Old Lee Highway, Chattanooga, Tennessee.