Elizabeth Ann Turner

Elizabeth “Liz” Ann Turner, passed from this life peacefully, surrounded by family on Monday, May 2, 2016. Liz was born on June 19, 1941 in Tulsa, Oklahoma to Gerald St. Clair and Leona Elizabeth Melson. Gerald was a Tulsa Police Officer, killed in the line of duty when Liz was 5 years old. Jim Livesay became a second father to Liz and her siblings when he and her mother married. Liz married and had four children. Raising the children alone, she ensured they had food to eat, clothes to wear and a place to live.

After attending beauty school, she spent more than 30 years employed by the Excelsior (now Doubletree) hotel. She worked in housekeeping and completed many sewing projects. She considered fellow staff members her second family.

Her hobbies were creative tasks such as sewing, crocheting, arts and crafts, cooking, arranging flowers. She also enjoyed bowling, but most of all she loved spending time with her family.
Liz was preceded in death by her parents, Gerald and Leona St. Clair, her step-dad James Gay Livesay, her sister, Dian Fazendine, her brother, Charles Avery St. Clair, and her grandson, Justin Noyes, who was killed while serving his country in Iraq.

Liz is survived by daughter Robin Powell and her husband, Chris, daughter, Stacey L. Bridges and her husband, Ronnie, sons, Lee Turner and his wife, Loretta, Jimmy Turner and his wife, Dana, her sister, Sharon Downs, grandchildren: Ashley, Emily, Claire and Nicholas Turner, Jeremy Norsworthy (Melissa), Hannah Noyes, Christopher Barnes (Sarah), Rachel Noyes (Benjamin), Kristen Sagar, Alex Sagar (Jennifer), Dylan Powell, great grandchildren: Tyler, Ryan and Aiden Norsworthy, Rylee Reed, Kanyon Smith, Bentlee Woodruff, Brysen Barnes, Riley Lawson, Clay Sagar, Mason Lively along with other family members and friends.

Memorial service celebrating Liz will be 2:00 p.m. Saturday, May 7, 2016 at Schaudt's Funeral Service Chapel, 719 East 141st Street, Glenpool, Oklahoma.

Arrangements were entrusted to Schaudt’s Funeral Service. Family and friends may view the obituary and send condolences to the family online at www.schaudtfuneralservice.com