JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – A Jacksonville mother started a scholarship fund at the University of Florida in her son’s name who died in a car crash in November 2023.
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Bridget Turner, his mother, has a closet full of her son’s possessions. It includes a lot of Legos.
It’s something that he loved.
Turner described her son as an inquisitive person who loved his sister.
He also loved the Jaguars.
“He was a season ticket holder and actually for Christmas, prior to November 12, for Christmas, I have numerous photos of Brice in Jaguar gear or at the stadium from the time he was like 2. And I was going to make him an album,” Turner said.
She said one of his last memories is sitting at EverBank Stadium on November 12, 2023.
After the Jags versus 49ers game ended, he started the drive back to school at UF.
But he didn’t make it.
“At 11:30 that night FHP knocked on our door and told us,” Turner said.
The 23-year-old lost control of his truck went into oncoming traffic and hit another truck on Waldo Road south of 55th Terrace.
It’s been six months since he died.
“It’s been difficult, but I have found by channeling my energy, it helps,” Turner said.
That energy is going towards “The Brice Turner Memorial Fund”.
It’s a scholarship fund meant to help graduate students like her son who was in the UF Nuclear Engineering program.
“Brice didn’t get to finish what he was working on. So this way they’ll always be, once we meet the minimum, there will always be money in his name for graduate students within nuclear engineering at UF,” Turner said.
It’s something she said would make Brice proud.
Turner said they are trying to raise 100,000 for the endowment because that’s what UF requires.
She also mentioned that Brice would have graduated with a master’s degree and had plans to go for his Ph.D.
Click here to donate and for more information about The Brice Turner Memorial Fund.