Obituary: Linda Kirkham

by Special to the Herald Times on July 12, 2015

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Linda Kirkham of Harvest, Ala., underwent double heart-valve surgery at Vanderbilt Medical Center in Nashville, Tenn., on June 9, 2015, and never awoke.

She passed away on Friday, June 12, 2015. She endured heart surgery in 1979 and again in 2013—all related to rheumatic fever suffered at an early age.
Linda was born in Oklahoma near the end of World War II to Dewey and Sybil Hess. She was the last of her…