Twyla Smith Linsley (1986)

LINSLEY, SMITH, YOUMANS

Posted By: Treva Patterson (email)
Date: 9/10/2006 at 18:11:22

Winterset Madisonian
August 27, 1986

Twyla Ruth Linsley, Greenfield, Ind.

Twyla Ruth Linsley was born Feb. 1, 1936 at Osceola. She was the youngest daughter of Emory and Lula Smith of Truro. She died Aug. 3, at a Greenfield, Ind. hospital.

Twyla spent the first years of her life around Osceola, and later Truro, where she attended and graduated from Truro High School. She was married to Rex Linsley, July 31, 1954, while Rex was in the U.S. Army. She spent the remainder of her life in Greenfield with the exception of four or five years in Cleveland, Miss.

Twyla was received into the Congregational Christian Church of Truro at a pre-teen age and was later married in that church.

She was preceded in death by her father, Emory Smith, on Aug. 29, 1961.

Besides her husband, son Dale and daughter Deanna, she is survived by her mother, Lula Smith of Truro; two sisters, Paulina Youmans of Truro and Mary Smith of Des Moines; eight nieces and nephews.