Linda Coggins, 75, of Hartselle, Alabama, passed peacefully, with family by her side, April 12, 2023. Linda, the daughter of Edwin and Juanita Blevins, was born in Mangum, Oklahoma on January 26, 1948. Linda graduated from Washington High School in Washington, Oklahoma, in 1965. Linda attended and graduatedbarber school in 1967 and married her husband of 55 years, Connel Edward Coggins in December of that year. She worked as a beautician for more than 40 years, as she and her husband traveled across the country for his career. She and Connel created friends and memories in Blanchard and El Reno, Oklahoma, and Laurel and Louisville, Mississippi, among many other places, before settling in Hartselle, Alabama, where they lived for the last 25 years.
Linda is preceded in death by her parents, Edwin and Juanita, and her brother Edwin Lavern Blevins, and is survived by her husband Connel, son Jason and his wife, Nancy of Norman, Okla., and daughter Amee Shaw and her husband, Chris of Moore, Okla., along with three beautiful granddaughters, Katie and Carsen Coggins and Lennon Shaw. Linda loved journaling, doing hair, researching ancestry, and reading. She loved her family well and will be greatly missed.
A celebration of Linda’s life will be held for friends and family at a later date.
In lieu of flowers, the family asks that a donation in Linda’s memory be made to The Sooner Theatre of Norman, Inc., 101 E Main St., Norman OK, 73069
https://www.soonertheatre.org/support/
