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Mary Linda Bartholomew, 67, passed away Friday, October 30, in Murfreesboro, TN from a brief illness.
Linda was born April 25, 1959 in Lexington, TN to James “Stanley” and Cora Mae Bartholomew. She was a graduate of Lexington High School, Class of ’76 where she was affectionately nicknamed Bart. She attended Union University where she was a member of Zeta Tau Alpha sorority and was a manager of the women’s basketball team. She graduated a Unionite, Class of 1980. She would later earn her teaching certificate from Middle Tennessee State University.
Linda worked for the Lake County Regional Correctional Facility educating prisoners and sponsoring the Christmas pageant that was featured on Good Morning America.
She later worked for the Jackson Area Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependency, or JACOA, where she continued her work in helping people get their life back from addiction.
After her work with JACOA, she went to work with the Reelfoot Girl Scout Council in Jackson. She worked there for over 20 years in membership recruitment and development. She was passionate about the Girl Scout organization forging lifelong friendships with both her co-workers and the girls she helped mentor in the program.
After transitioning from the Girl Scouts, she went to work for Community Health Systems in the Lexington office where she spent the remainder of her working years until retirement.
In 2006 she met Paul Wooster and the two wed October 11, 2009. He was the love of her life, and she was his. They traveled extensively to all the places she loved and did all the things he loved to do. They also spent many meaningful hours entertaining friends on deck of their home. They loved to watch the humming birds and to collect and shell pecans. There was, however, nothing they loved more than spending quality time with their family and each other. Linda loved God, family, the beach, travel, and Tennessee football, in that order on most days, though there have been many occasions where Tennessee football was second on that list.
Linda is survived by her niece Susan (Tommy) Metheny and nephew Kevin (Britney) Bartholomew, and her great nieces Dyana Metheny, Meghan Metheny, and Harper Bartholomew, and great nephews Jake Hanna and Maddox Bartholomew. She was preceded in death by her husband Paul Wooster, her parents Stanley and Cora Mae Bartholomew, and her brother and sister-in-law, David and Kathy Bartholomew.
A joint memorial service for both Linda and Paul will be held Saturday, November 14 at Pafford’s Funeral Home in Lexington, TN. Friends and family may call at 10:00 and service begins at 11:00. The family will spread the ashes of Linda and Paul privately on a later date at Biloxi Beach, the place the two of them loved to be, as long as they were together.
Linda was born April 25, 1959 in Lexington, TN to James “Stanley” and Cora Mae Bartholomew. She was a graduate of Lexington High School, Class of ’76 where she was affectionately nicknamed Bart. She attended Union University where she was a member of Zeta Tau Alpha sorority and was a manager of the women’s basketball team. She graduated a Unionite, Class of 1980. She would later earn her teaching certificate from Middle Tennessee State University.
Linda worked for the Lake County Regional Correctional Facility educating prisoners and sponsoring the Christmas pageant that was featured on Good Morning America.
She later worked for the Jackson Area Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependency, or JACOA, where she continued her work in helping people get their life back from addiction.
After her work with JACOA, she went to work with the Reelfoot Girl Scout Council in Jackson. She worked there for over 20 years in membership recruitment and development. She was passionate about the Girl Scout organization forging lifelong friendships with both her co-workers and the girls she helped mentor in the program.
After transitioning from the Girl Scouts, she went to work for Community Health Systems in the Lexington office where she spent the remainder of her working years until retirement.
In 2006 she met Paul Wooster and the two wed October 11, 2009. He was the love of her life, and she was his. They traveled extensively to all the places she loved and did all the things he loved to do. They also spent many meaningful hours entertaining friends on deck of their home. They loved to watch the humming birds and to collect and shell pecans. There was, however, nothing they loved more than spending quality time with their family and each other. Linda loved God, family, the beach, travel, and Tennessee football, in that order on most days, though there have been many occasions where Tennessee football was second on that list.
Linda is survived by her niece Susan (Tommy) Metheny and nephew Kevin (Britney) Bartholomew, and her great nieces Dyana Metheny, Meghan Metheny, and Harper Bartholomew, and great nephews Jake Hanna and Maddox Bartholomew. She was preceded in death by her husband Paul Wooster, her parents Stanley and Cora Mae Bartholomew, and her brother and sister-in-law, David and Kathy Bartholomew.
A joint memorial service for both Linda and Paul will be held Saturday, November 14 at Pafford’s Funeral Home in Lexington, TN. Friends and family may call at 10:00 and service begins at 11:00. The family will spread the ashes of Linda and Paul privately on a later date at Biloxi Beach, the place the two of them loved to be, as long as they were together.
