Linda Brooks Bollinger

Linda Brooks Bollinger, 66, passed away at her daughters’ home with her family in West Memphis, AR on Friday, December 23, 2016. Linda was born in Memphis, TN on December 18, 1950. Her parents moved to Brownsville, TN when she was a small child and she resided there until 1999. During her time in Brownsville she graduated from Haywood High School and then earned a degree from Union University in Jackson, TN. She worked at American Air Filter for a number of years. She also helped run her father's company Jackson Wood Products in Jackson, TN and then in Marks, MS. She went on to pursue a degree in teaching as helping young people was one of her greatest passions. She was a member at Calvary Baptist Church. She married Michael Bollinger of West Memphis, AR in 1995. A few years later, they moved to West Memphis, AR where she went on to teach at Marion Intermediate School and then Richland Elementary School for a number of years. When she retired from teaching, she helped run Mike's trucking company and spent a great deal of time with her family. She became a member of the First Methodist Church in West Memphis. In the last year she worked with her daughter, Lindsey, at Absolute Care Management Corporation, and she took great pride in her job. She had a passion for helping others and she was able to light up any room she walked into. She will be greatly missed by all who knew and loved her. She was preceded in death by her grandparents, Fred and Dolly Scallions Poindexter and Lucille Newman Brooks and Elbert Brooks, her parents, Marjorie Marie Poindexter Brooks and John Lewis Brooks, her brother, Danny Wayne Brooks, her mother-in-law and father-in-law, Fred and Syble Bollinger, and many beloved aunts, uncles, and cousins. She leaves behind her husband, Michael Oliver Bollinger of West Memphis, her son, Robert Shane Hart of Memphis, her daughter, Lindsey Allen-McGuire (Cali) of West Memphis, two sisters, Vania Brooks and Christie Brooks Thompson, two beloved nieces, Nickie Wood and Tori Dotson and a nephew, Tyler Dotson along with many other close family members and friends. Her visitation will be held at Lea and Simmons Funeral Home in Brownsville, TN on Wednesday, December 28th from 6:00-8:30 P.M. and her funeral services will be held at Lea and Simmons on Thursday, December 29th at 2:00 P.M. with short graveside memorial and burial at Brownsville Memorial Gardens. In Lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made in her name to the The American Alzheimer's Association, 713 S. Mendenhall, Memphis, TN 38117 or The National Institute of Neurological Disorders, P.O. Box 5801, Bethesda, MD 20824.