Turner has been a volunteer with the organization for 25 years and logged more than 25,000 hours of service.

She’s done everything with the group from bookkeeping and insurance to working with families and spearheading fundraisers.

“I worked since I was 14 years old,” Turner said. “I’ve always worked so when my husband and I decided I would retire, the next day I just started volunteering.”

Even after suffering a stroke five years ago that left her partially paralyzed, she’s continued to work with Hospice of the Piedmont.

“I was completely paralyzed on my left side,” she said. “They flattened the bed but I just had to keep going.”

The High Point woman also volunteered with Meals on Wheels for 25 years, and she said she’s excited to meet the President.

“I am just so fond of him anyway, and Laura and his folks, so I just think his parents are wonderful,” Turner said. “We’re real big fans, so this is really something special.”

The president also plans to visit Youth Focus Incorporated, a United Way agency that focuses on children with behavioral problems and worked to connect mentors with children who have parents in prison.

“President Bush, I think is coming to recognize this program and to acknowledge the success of it, not just our program but the program nationally,” Chuck Hodierne, executive director of Youth Focus Incorporated, said.

Hodierne estimated that there are around 2,000 incarcerated parents in Guilford County. He said they’ve mentored about 147 of their children since the program started.

“We know that children who have a parent that’s incarcerated are much more likely to go on and have trouble with the law and become incarcerated themselves,” Hodierne said.

The White House has yet to release any specific details about President Bush’s visit to the Triad.

President Bush was scheduled to be in Greensboro for a private function before the elections earlier this month, but cancelled due to the escalating economic crisis.