Linda Sue (Ross) Rhoads (2016)
BROWN, JACKSON, JACOBS, JOHNSON, MORLAN, NELSON, RHOADS, ROSS, SMITH
Posted By: Mary Welty Hart
Date: 6/16/2016 at 11:39:38
Winterset Madisonian
Winterset, Iowa
Wednesday, June 15, 2016LINDA RHOADS, Winterset
Linda Rhoads, 71, of Winterset, died Monday, June 13, 2016, at her home.
A visitation will be held from 1 to 8 p.m., Thursday, June 16, at Ochiltree Funeral Service in Winterset, with family present to receive friends from 6 to 8 p.m. A funeral service will be held at 10:30 a.m., Friday, June 17, at Ochiltree’s, with burial to follow in the Winterset Cemetery. Memorials may be directed to the family and online condolences may be left at ochiltree.com.
Linda Sue Ross, the daughter of Clifford ‘Bing’ and Alice (Johnson) Ross was born in Des Moines on September 8, 1945. She grew up in Winterset and was a WHS Class of 1964 graduate. Her marriage to Billy Wayne Rhoads took place on August 8, 1965, at the Winterset First Presbyterian Church.
Linda was a homemaker all of her life, raising her children and later running a daycare from her home. She loved children and enjoyed taking care of them and she especially loved her grandchildren.
Linda was not one to join groups but found great joy in the care she gave to children. She enjoyed flower gardening and she loved her dog, Sophie. Above all else, Linda loved her family and cherished time spent with them.
Those left to cherish her memory are her three children, Laurie (Marty) Smith, Donna (Jeff) Jackson and Brett Rhoads (Vicki Morlan) of Winterset. She is further survived by a brother, Craig (Cherlyn) Ross of Des Moines; nine grandchildren, Heather (Trevor) Nelson, Jesse Smith, Abby (Jason) Brown, Brandon Jacobs, Virgil Blu Jackson, Nick Rhoads, Mallory Rhoads, Erin Rhoads, and Autumn Rhoads; two great-grandchildren; extended family and a host of friends.
She was preceded in death by her parents.
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