1949
Linda
2006
Linda Lou Mindham
September 16, 1949 — August 17, 2006
Linda Mindham, 56, of Waukon, IA, died Thursday, August 17, 2006 at Thornton Manor Care Center in Lansing, IA. Funeral services will be held Monday, August 21st at 11:00 am at St. Paul's United Methodist Church in Waukon, with Rev. Richard Iles officiating. Burial will be in Haney Ridge Cemetery, rural Boscobel, WI. Friends may call from 3:00 to 7:00 pm Sunday at Martin Funeral Home in Waukon.
Linda Lou Driscoll Mindham was born in Viroqua, WI on September 16, 1949, the daughter of Pat and Phyllis (Silbaugh) Driscoll. Their family lived in a number of southwest Wisconsin communities following her father's career. Linda graduated from Fennimore High School in 1968 and worked for the Grant/Crawford Electric Coop for several years. On June 2, 1973 she married Leon Mindham in Boscobel, WI. They moved to Waukon later that year when Leon started teaching there. Linda worked first as a legal secretary for A.E. Sheridan and a bookkeeper at Waukon John Deere. She then started her own business called Linda's Bookkeeping and Accounting, and serviced a number of small local businesses. The past 26 years she has been a manager for Allamakee Housing, Inc, where she played a vital role in building expansions and the implemenatation of assisted living services. She also managed Eighth Avenue Apartments in Waukon, Monona Housing in Monona and Farmersburg Sr. Citizen Housing.
Linda was a member of St. Paul's United Methodist Church and in earlier years was active in some of her childrens scouting and library activities. She enjoyed knitting and crafts and was beginning to take up painting. Her extensive collection of thimbles and Country Cousins figurines were also a favorite of hers. Throughout her life she had a love of animals, especially horses as a child and her cats in later years.
Survivors include her husband Leon of Waukon; 3 children, Nicole of Madison, WI and David and Steve, both of Ames, IA; 4 brothers, Ron of LaFarge, WI, Mike of Clyde, TX, Scott of Mesa, AZ and Glenn of TX; and 2 sisters, Connie of Minneapolis, MN, and Colleen of Clyde, TX. She is preceded in death by her parents; her sister Kathy; and a special aunt and uncle, Gay and Martin French of Sun Prairie, WI.
Casketbearers are Bob Joachim, Dale Hart, Ed Stamper, Dave Davies, and Arnold, Gary, Loren and Warren Mindham.
Linda Lou Driscoll Mindham was born in Viroqua, WI on September 16, 1949, the daughter of Pat and Phyllis (Silbaugh) Driscoll. Their family lived in a number of southwest Wisconsin communities following her father's career. Linda graduated from Fennimore High School in 1968 and worked for the Grant/Crawford Electric Coop for several years. On June 2, 1973 she married Leon Mindham in Boscobel, WI. They moved to Waukon later that year when Leon started teaching there. Linda worked first as a legal secretary for A.E. Sheridan and a bookkeeper at Waukon John Deere. She then started her own business called Linda's Bookkeeping and Accounting, and serviced a number of small local businesses. The past 26 years she has been a manager for Allamakee Housing, Inc, where she played a vital role in building expansions and the implemenatation of assisted living services. She also managed Eighth Avenue Apartments in Waukon, Monona Housing in Monona and Farmersburg Sr. Citizen Housing.
Linda was a member of St. Paul's United Methodist Church and in earlier years was active in some of her childrens scouting and library activities. She enjoyed knitting and crafts and was beginning to take up painting. Her extensive collection of thimbles and Country Cousins figurines were also a favorite of hers. Throughout her life she had a love of animals, especially horses as a child and her cats in later years.
Survivors include her husband Leon of Waukon; 3 children, Nicole of Madison, WI and David and Steve, both of Ames, IA; 4 brothers, Ron of LaFarge, WI, Mike of Clyde, TX, Scott of Mesa, AZ and Glenn of TX; and 2 sisters, Connie of Minneapolis, MN, and Colleen of Clyde, TX. She is preceded in death by her parents; her sister Kathy; and a special aunt and uncle, Gay and Martin French of Sun Prairie, WI.
Casketbearers are Bob Joachim, Dale Hart, Ed Stamper, Dave Davies, and Arnold, Gary, Loren and Warren Mindham.
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