Janet Turnbull Schwierking

Janet Carol Turnbull was born in San Francisco and called California home until her early 40s. Her husband, Bly Schwierking served in the Air Force, moving her and their five children to Texas and Illinois. But she always considered the San Francisco Bay area home. She dedicated her life to nursing and worked as a licensed vocational nurse in San Antonio, Texas for close to 30 years. She is survived by her sister, six children, fifteen grandchildren, twenty great-grand children, and one great-great grandchild.
Janet served TCA from the late 1990s to 2010 with a dedication rarely seen. In 2016, Janet was awarded with the John Fisher Turnbull Lifetime Achievement Award, the Turnbull Clan highest honor. She was a pioneer in establishing the future of Turnbull Clan Association.

Janet volunteered her services to TCA in the 1990s and was essential in helping to reorganizing TCA in the late 1990’s. She not only established and maintained the first membership lists, along with other related duties she included the initial establishment of some sort of a genealogical list. She started and edited the first organized Bullseye newsletter. If she heard that a member was ill or in a difficult situation, she reached out personally.
Janet had a determined loyalty to the wellbeing of TCA, and that devotion to her commitments extended to other areas as well. She became the last resort of help for people in the general Poteet, Texas area, who had pets, but not necessarily house pets, for medical help, because Janet had a Nursing Degree (for humans).
When Janet was committed to a project, it was done with a clarity of purity and resolve for the success for the project or organization, and she was quick to defend that commitment from any deviation from the original intent of the organization. That commitment resulted in the future success and evolvement of TCA into what it is today.
TCA should remember her for all her contributions, most of which went unheralded.