Freestone County, Texas
Obituaries


[Betsy Leigh (Trenckman) Turchi]


Fairfield Recorder 
December 23, 2010

BETSY LEIGH TURCHI

Memorial services were held Wednesday at 2 p.m. at the First Baptist Church in 
Fairfield for Betsy Leigh Turchi, 51, of Streetman who died Sunday, Dec. 19 at 
ETMC Fairfield Hospital surrounded by her family after a bitter battle with 
breast cancer.

The body was cremated. Mrs. Turchi, also known as Dr. Betsy Trenckman, D.V.M. 
was born on January 28, 1959 in Houston to Ernest Henry Trenchmann and Marilyn 
Brooks.

She grew up in Bellville where she later graduated from high school and then 
attended and graduated from Texas A&M University with a Bachelor of Science 
degree in animal science in 1981.

Mrs. Turchi then attended and graduated from the University of Tennessee in 
Knoxville with a D.V.M. degree in 1984.

She married Keith Turchi in 1984.

Mrs. Turchi was member of the Christ Episcopal Church in Mexia.

She loved and cared for many animals and took pride in her treatment of them.

Mrs. Turchi was preceded in death by her parents.

She is survived by her husband; son Ryan Turchi; daughter Jane Turchi, all of 
Streetman;

Sister Cindy McNamara and husband Harold of Fulshear; and brother Brooks 
Trenkmann and wife Eileen of Lavita, CO.

Memorials may be made to the College of Veterinary Medicine at Univeristy of 
Tennessee/Knoxville, Companion Animal Fund, at www.vet.utk.edu/giving or to New 
Leash on Life in Fairfield at www.nlol.webs.com.

Making arrangements was Capps Memorial Chapel of Fairfield.