Jean C. Trimble
1927 - 2025
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Jean C. Trimble passed away peacefully on Oct. 4, 2025, at the age of 98. Jean was born in West Virginia to Elva Mabel Ward (nee) and Dr. Walter Allen Carr.
Growing up, Jean was a keen observer and often watched and/or assisted as her father tended to his medical patients. She became an accomplished musician, attended the famed Interlochen Center for the Arts and subsequently won a music scholarship to the University of Miami in 1945. There, she met and married fellow musician Robert Turkisher. They had four children: Bonnie Jean, Linda Clare, Edward Allen, and Thomas David. Jean played the viola in the Mobile Alabama Symphony, and later in the Doctor’s Symphony (Symphony Parnassus) in San Francisco.
Jean was admitted to Stanford University’s School of Nursing in 1957, then located in San Francisco. She paved the way for a new generation of nurses by being one of the first single mothers admitted to the University, where she earned a bachelor’s degree in science/nursing in 1960, the same year she married Lloyd C. Trimble. She went on to earn a master’s degree in public health from the University of California San Francisco, before moving to Sunnyvale, California, where Jean and Lloyd welcomed daughters Teresa Kay and Amy Lynn Trimble.
Jean was one of the first faculty members in the newly formed Nursing Department at De Anza College in 1966. The College wrote that Jean’s “impact continues to be felt every day through the success of our students” and the strength of the nationally recognized program she helped to create. She retired in 1990 after training and mentoring hundreds of outstanding young nurses. She relocated to Red Bluff, California, where she restored an historic 1909 Victorian and worked as a psychiatric nurse for Shasta County Mental Health Services into her 80s.
Jean loved the arts, especially music, a quick wit, intellectually stimulating conversations, dancing, cooking, world travel, continuous learning, but above all, she loved celebrating holidays and special occasions with her family.
She was preceded in death by her former husband, Lloyd Trimble, her siblings Betty, Jim and Alice, her son Thomas Turkisher, and grandson Galen Antle.
She is survived by her children: Bonnie Hale, Linda Turkisher, Edward Turkisher, Teresa and Sean Glynn, and Amy and David Carroll; by seven grandchildren, Raina Antle, Indianna Turkisher, Tyler, Ryan, and Brandon Carroll, Patrick and Kyle Glynn; and by five great grandchildren.
Growing up, Jean was a keen observer and often watched and/or assisted as her father tended to his medical patients. She became an accomplished musician, attended the famed Interlochen Center for the Arts and subsequently won a music scholarship to the University of Miami in 1945. There, she met and married fellow musician Robert Turkisher. They had four children: Bonnie Jean, Linda Clare, Edward Allen, and Thomas David. Jean played the viola in the Mobile Alabama Symphony, and later in the Doctor’s Symphony (Symphony Parnassus) in San Francisco.
Jean was admitted to Stanford University’s School of Nursing in 1957, then located in San Francisco. She paved the way for a new generation of nurses by being one of the first single mothers admitted to the University, where she earned a bachelor’s degree in science/nursing in 1960, the same year she married Lloyd C. Trimble. She went on to earn a master’s degree in public health from the University of California San Francisco, before moving to Sunnyvale, California, where Jean and Lloyd welcomed daughters Teresa Kay and Amy Lynn Trimble.
Jean was one of the first faculty members in the newly formed Nursing Department at De Anza College in 1966. The College wrote that Jean’s “impact continues to be felt every day through the success of our students” and the strength of the nationally recognized program she helped to create. She retired in 1990 after training and mentoring hundreds of outstanding young nurses. She relocated to Red Bluff, California, where she restored an historic 1909 Victorian and worked as a psychiatric nurse for Shasta County Mental Health Services into her 80s.
Jean loved the arts, especially music, a quick wit, intellectually stimulating conversations, dancing, cooking, world travel, continuous learning, but above all, she loved celebrating holidays and special occasions with her family.
She was preceded in death by her former husband, Lloyd Trimble, her siblings Betty, Jim and Alice, her son Thomas Turkisher, and grandson Galen Antle.
She is survived by her children: Bonnie Hale, Linda Turkisher, Edward Turkisher, Teresa and Sean Glynn, and Amy and David Carroll; by seven grandchildren, Raina Antle, Indianna Turkisher, Tyler, Ryan, and Brandon Carroll, Patrick and Kyle Glynn; and by five great grandchildren.
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