Marion Evelyn Turner was born on October 15, 1952 in Pikeville, Kentucky to Brownie and Minnie Cabell. She was the second born of five children and was affectionately called “Lulu” by friends and family. As the historian of the family she would always talk about growing up with the Hatfields and McCoys and the many adventures she experienced in the mountains of the Bluegrass State. As a child, Marion’s greatest dream was to have a family and become what she endearingly called “a lil’ ‘ole nurse”. She’d often speak about how each year her father and mother would buy her a toy nursing kit for Christmas and she’d tinker for hours pretending to help the hurt and wounded. In 1978, Marion and her family moved to Flint, Michigan for a fresh start. There, while working as a bank teller, Marion met Kenneth Turner over the phone as he began flirting with her due to her country accent and southern charm. He asked her out on a date, and with the pressure of the teller next-door, she hesitantly said yes. After only the second date, Ken was hinting at marriage and less than a year later, they were wed. Ken and Marion moved to Lansing, Michigan in 1980 and shortly afterward, started a family. Before the arrival of their first child, they joined Lansing Christian Center Church under Pastors Howard and PolLe Davenport. Marion always said that LCCC is where her faith started to mature and her family began to grow. Everyone who knew Marion knows that Lansing quickly became the home of her heart. As Marion’s family grew and settled, there was still one dream that remained unrealized, her lifelong desire to become a nurse. Through the urging and support of her husband, Marion finally pursued her desire and on March 5, 1993, surrounded by family, Marion walked across the stage of Lansing Community College and received her Associates in Nursing, Magna Cum Laude. Marion’s passion was working with the elderly, and she spent many years of her profession as a geriatrics nurse. In 2007, Kenneth and Marion moved to Glendale, AZ where she spent the latter of her career as a psychiatric nurse. While in Arizona, Marion’s “family” grew through friends and colleagues she met while working at Banner Regional Health and attending Living Faith Fellowship Church. Marion also had the pleasure of co-pioneering Ambassadors for Christ Ministries with her husband Ken in 2013. Marion’s greatest joy was being a wife to Ken and mother of her four children. You’d often find her in the kitchen baking goodies for a brood of kids, decorating for a holiday (particularly Christmas), on the phone laughing with her sisters and friends, and enjoying quiet time with the Lord. She never let a good classic, black-and-white film pass her by without a basket of clothes to fold on the weekends and enjoyed musicals, talking politics, and attending concerts with Ken. The beauty of Marion’s life is marked by the simplicity and sincerity with which she lived. Always enough love for everyone who called or stopped by, and enough food too. In her care, no one ever went hungry, unloved, unwanted or unappreciated. On any given day you would always find a wad of one dollar bills in her pocketbook to give to the homeless when she was out and about. Driven by her own experiences of poverty and hunger as a youth in Kentucky, she gave to multiple charities to help those in need. Her life’s motto came from her own mother: “No matter what comes your way in life, keep your hand in the hand of Jesus.” She is survived by her beloved husband, Kenneth Turner; her four children, Karessa Turner, Katrece and Dominique Boyd, Kenneth Turner II, Kevin Turner, her unborn grandchild; 2 younger sisters, Elizabeth (Gary) Turner and Helen Cabell, an older brother David (Anita) Cabell, and her baby brother Brian Cabell; as well as a host of nephews, nieces, brother and sister-in-laws, cousins, god-children and friends who loved her.