Linda M. Grinnell

Published 12:00 am Friday, June 10, 2011

June 12, 1960 – June 5, 2011

KIRBY — Services for Linda M. Grinnell, 50, of Bude, who died Sunday, June 5, 2011, at her residence, will be at 11 a.m. Saturday at Mount Olive Baptist Church in Kirby.

Burial will follow at Higdon Cemetery under the direction of Marshall Funeral Home in Bude.

Visitation will be from 9 a.m. until service time Saturday at the church.

Ms. Grinnell was born June 12, 1960, in Franklin County, the daughter of Lizzie Allen and Willie Lee Burnette.

She was preceded in death by her parents and two aunts, Dessie Lee Allen and Essie Lee Allen.

Survivors include two daughters, Angela Smith and husband, Mark, of Roxie and Brandy Simmons and husband, Lionel, of Bude; two sons, Roger Dale Hunt and Jeremy Hunt, both of Natchez; four sisters, Clara White of Dallas, Daisy Burnette of Michigan, Shelia Lyons and Mazie Venson, both of Brookhaven; two brothers, Ernest Allen of Kirby and Keith White of Kissimee, Fla.; four aunts, Bessie Felton of Hamburg, Lillie Stampley of Fayette, Bessie Cockerham of Metairie, La., and Gurthie King of Duarte, Calif.; four uncles, Howard Burnette of Tickfaw, La., C.L. Allen, Nora Allen Jr. and Jacob Allen, all of Kirby; four grandchildren; and a number of nieces, nephews, other relatives and friends.