Crime & Safety

Services Scheduled for Cary Woman Killed by Metra Train

Visitation and funeral services will be held Thursday and Friday for 35-year-old Jill Turskey, who was hit and killed Nov. 3, by a Metra train in Cary.

Visitation and funeral services have been scheduled for Jill Turskey, the 35-year-old Cary woman who was tragically killed Saturday, Nov. 3, when she was hit by a Metra train.

Visitation for the long-time Cary resident and graduate of Cary-Grove High School is scheduled from 3 to 8 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 8, at Kahle-Moore Funeral Home, 403 Silver Lake Road, Cary.

Visitation will continue from 10 a.m. until the funeral service at 11 a.m. Friday, Nov. 9, at Holy Cross Lutheran Church in Cary. Burial will be in Windridge Memorial Park, according to Turskey's obituary notice in the Northwest Herald.

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Turskey was struck by an outbound Metra train at about 6:50 p.m. on the railroad tracks northwest of the Cary train station, across from Feinburg Court.

Investigators were trying to determine how the collision occurred, said Kim Bostic, deputy coroner for the county.

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Turskey, a fitness fanatic, worked as a physical education teacher at Richmond-Burton High School, according to the obituary notice.

She is survived by her parents, Dennis and Virginia Turskey of Cary; three brothers, Brian (Joan) Turskey, Brett (Dana) Turskey and Brad (Sonja) Turskey; nieces and nephews, Grace Turskey, Josh Turskey, Nicholas Turskey, Natalie Turskey, Katelyn Turskey, Kelsy Turskey and Julia Turskey; maternal grandmother, Bernice Trochim; and her godparents, Barb and Tony Tabor, the notice said.


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