George E. Linton

Published 5:00 am Monday, October 23, 2006

Services for George E. Linton, of Brookhaven, were 2 p.m.Sunday, Oct. 22, at Pearlhaven Baptist Church with burial in RamahBaptist Church Cemetery. Brookhaven Funeral Home is in charge ofarrangements.

Mr. Linton, 58, died Oct. 20, 2006, at Gilmore Memorial Hospitalin Amory. He was born in Lincoln County on March 3, 2006, toClifton Linton and Ruth Lessett Linton Myers.

He was the retired owner of George’s Auto Parts. He was a memberof Pearlhaven Baptist Church. He was a veteran of the NationalGuard. He was also a man who loved his family and his church. Heattended Copiah Lincoln Community College and WhitworthCollege.

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Preceding him in death were his father and his step father,Marvin Smith.

Survivors are his wife, Ethelene Linton, of Brookhaven; hismother, Ruth L. Myers, of Brookhaven; his sons, George Linton Jr.and his wife, Robyn, of Brookhaven, and Frank Linton and his wife,Paula, of Smithdale; his daughter, Kim Linton Sipes and herhusband, Chad, of Amory; his brother, Howard Linton, of Brookhaven;and his grandchildren, Selena Linton, Hana Linton, Jacobe Sipes andLogan Sipes.