Linda Rose Grayson Booker was born in Newellton, LA on July 20, 1938, with a Band-Aid on her knee, as she would say. She peacefully went to be with her Lord and Savior, at her son’s home in Columbia City, IN on April 21, 2024. She was a faithful follower of Jesus Christ and a Godly example to her children. Linda spent her youth in both Fulton and Greenville, MS. She was the first of five children of Frank and Doris Grayson. She married James (Jim) Booker in 1958 and started her adventure as an Air Force wife.
Linda and Jim traveled extensively, and started their own family of three boys, James, David, and Scott. From Morrocco to North Dakota, Washington DC, to Nebraska, Germany to Alabama, Jim and Linda toured the world. Linda was a gifted singer and musician. She received a bachelor’s degree in music from the University of Nebraska. She directed the Bellview Community Chorus in Nebraska and went on to becoming the music minister for both Catholic and Protestant services in Ramstein, Germany. After moving to Alabama, she became the minister of music for multiple Baptist churches ending up in East Huntsville Baptist church, where she retired.
Linda moved to Indiana after the death of her husband and lived out the last year and a half with her son and daughter-in-law.
She is survived by her brothers David Grayson, Walt Grayson and Robert Grayson. And also her sons Jim Booker (wife Lanae), William David Booker (wife Diane), and Scott Booker (wife Christy) as well as seven grandchildren, Megan, Alexa, Benton, Olivia, Emily, Daniel and Andrew, and four great-grandchildren Evie, Faye, Liam and Rowan.
She was preceded in death by her husband James Booker, one sister, Ermie Macknee, and grandson Zachary Booker.
A funeral service will be at 12:00 p.m. Saturday, May 4, at the McNeece- Morris Funeral Home Chapel in Fulton, MS. Burial will be in Oak Grove Cemetery in Mantachie, MS.
Visitation will be Saturday, May 4, from 11:00 a.m. until service time at the McNeece-Morris Funeral Home in Fulton.
