A funeral service for Tayelar Turner, 33, of Marshall, Texas will be held at 2:00 p.m., Monday, September 22, 2025, in the Chapel of Downs Funeral Home. Interment will follow at Algoma South Cemetery. A visitation for family and friends will be held prior to the service beginning at 1:00 p.m. in the Chapel.

Tayelar was born on March 7, 1992, in Marshall, Texas to Donald Edward Turner and Delanna Dawn Copeland Turner and passed away on September 10, 2025, in Tyler, Texas.

She grew up in Marshall, Texas with a short stay in Deer Park, Texas, but Marshall was home to her. She was a 2010 graduate of Marshall High School where she played soccer and softball. She was a 2012 graduate of Panola Junior College and a graduate of ETBU with a bachelor's degree in 2015 and a master's degree in 2017. She of the Christian Faith and a member of Friends of Trinity. She loved all kinds of music, Longview's best boot camp and playing her Wolf Game with amazing family and friends and wolfpack. She was a Tax Accountant at  Martin  Resource Management Corporation and she loved her Martin Family. Most of all she loved being a mommy to Elise who was her pride and joy.

She was preceded in death by her maternal grandparents, J.C. and Faye Copeland; paternal grandparents, Don and Willie Turner; uncle, J.C. Copeland, Jr.; aunts, Loretta Hill and Dianna Gaye Barnette and the best dog ever, Roscoe.

She is survived by her parents, Eddie and Dee Dee Turner; her 7-year-old daughter and the love of her life, Elise Rayne Turner; special love, Commodore Christopher "Comms" Kelly Bailey, Royal Australian Navy (RAN) NAS TRATCON, Canada-North American Strategic Command; siblings, Eleeza Johnson and husband, Bo and Jodi Gillespie and children; aunts, Debbie Woodruff and husband, Wayne, Brenda Fort, Teresa Kates and husband, Matt and Barbara Barnhill; uncles, Michael Turner and wife, Marlene and Ronnie Barnette and nieces, Mia Johnson and Lake Johnson along with numerous great nieces, great nephews, cousins and other family and friends.

In lieu of flowers the family requests that donations be made in her honor to the  Alzheimer's Association and or to the Spina Bifida Association.

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