Former BJ reporter Lornet Turnbull passed
away.
Lornet was a business news reporter at
the Beacon Journal from 1991-96 and a reporter in the BJ Columbus Bureau in
1997.
She left for the Columbus Dispatch from
1997 to 2003 and was named Enterprise Reporter of the Year.
At the Seattle Times (2004-2014) Lornet
was part of a team of reporters who won the Pulitzer Prize for coverage of the
2014 Oso, Washington landslide that killed 43 people.
Lornet also worked for YES! Magazine and
the Washington Post.
She was originally from Tortola and a
graduate of Florida A&M University.
She was diagnosed with lung cancer in
2020. She wrote about engaging in outdoor activities as part of her therapy and
strategy to fight her illness. Lornet and husband Steve Haile spent almost two
decades hiking in the Olympic and Cascade ranges near their Seatttle home.
Mount Rainier provided her with magnificent scenery on her drives to their
house.
Lornet and Steve ziplined on Seven Mile
Beach in Negril, Jamaica; went snowshoeing in Mazama, Washington, and the Adirondacks;
enjoyed the scenery of Vancouver, British Columbia, as Paula and I did,
including Stanley Park, which has miles of nature’s masterpieces to enjoy.
Lornet and Steve knew how to embrace life
and nature!
My thanks to former BJer Ken Krause and my Facebook
Googling for the information in this article.
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