Thursday, July 29, 2021

Linda Moore Douglass

Linda Moore Douglass, 76, of Louisville, MS passed away on Monday, July 26, 2021 at her residence. Her funeral service will be held on Thursday, July 29 at 11:00 a.m. at Cockrell Funeral Home in Macon, MS. Bro. Glen Barker will officiate. Interment will follow in Oddfellows Cemetery in Macon. Visitation will be Thursday from 10:00 a.m. until service time at the funeral home. Cockrell Funeral Home of Macon is in charge of the arrangements.
 
Linda Moore Douglass was born in Macon, MS on July 31, 1944 to the late William B. Moore and Lucy Lavada Cooper Moore. She was a graduate of Brooksville High School and attended Bethel College for a short time. She married Lester Lee Card and they raised their children for the next few years. She later married Lee Douglass and they made their home in Louisville, MS. She was first of all a housewife and homemaker but she also worked at The Spot, her father’s restaurant in Macon, among other places. Linda loved music, but she was an especially avid fan of Conway Twitty. After her husband’s passing, she enjoyed going to the New Beginnings Center for Adults in Philadelphia, MS where she enjoyed visiting and doing crafts. She loved cross-stitching and solving find-a-word puzzles.
 
Linda M. Douglass is survived by her daughter: Wendy Conner (Danny) of Preston, MS and her two sons: Bubba Card (Michele) of Nanih Waiya, MS and Will Card (Addy) of Livingston, AL. She also leaves to mourn her passing her two sisters: Esther Howard of Brooksville and Martha Derusha (Gene) of Toomsuba, MS and one brother: Billy Moore (Sarah) of Brooksville, MS as well as eighteen grandchildren and sixteen great-grandchildren. 

She was preceded in death by her parents; one sister: Jimmie Ruth MacBrayer; husbands: Lester Lee Card and Lee Douglass and her stepmother: Henrietta Moore.