The Turtle Lady is still missed Probably the only upshot to South Padre Island’s famed turtle lady, Ila Fox Loetscher, no longer being with us, is the fact that she would no doubt be heartbroken to see today’s wave of sea turtles washing up dead along Texas beaches. Granted, the Turtle Lady paid special attention to the smallest of sea turtles, the Kemp’s Ridley, and the ones currently under duress are the loggerhead turtles, but she loved them all.Loetscher’s efforts in relieving the plight of the Ridley Turtle heightened public attention at a time when the sea creature was in ...