Sweeney, Linda Rozetta Linkous

Linda Rozetta Linkous Sweeney, 67, of Blacksburg died, Thursday March 2, 2006, at Montgomery Regional Hospital.

She was born in Montgomery County, Va. on April 9, 1938 to the late Richard and Kitty Lawson Linkous and was also preceded in death by a sister Nancy Wright. She was a member of the Merrimac Pentecostal Holiness Church.

She is survived by her daughter and son-in-law, Suzanne and Daniel Sult, of Blacksburg; son, Dennis Sweeney, of Pilot; sisters and brother-in-law, Lois and Malcom Woolwine and Peggy Selby, all of Blacksburg; brother, William “Bobby” Linkous, of Christiansburg; four grandchildren, Melissa “Missy” Sweeney, Carmen Sweeney, April Sult, and Rachel Sult; three great-grandchildren, Savannah Sweeney, Hunter Merrix, and Gracie Merrix; several nieces and nephews; special friends Bonnie Clark and Joyce Farmer.

After a courageous battle Linda has joined her parents in heaven.

Funeral services will be conducted Saturday, March 4, 2006 at 2 p.m. in the McCoy Funeral Home Chapel with the Rev. Jerry Sloss officiating. Interment will follow in the Roselawn Memorial Gardens, Christiansburg. Friends may call anytime after 12 noon Friday, and the family will receive friends from 6 to 8 p.m. Friday evening at the McCoy Funeral Home 150 Country Club Drive, SW., Blacksburg.