Linda Carol Cockerham

LINDA CAROL COCKERHAM WENT TO LIVE WITH JESUS ON SUNDAY, AUGUST 25 FROM CLAPPS CONVALESCENT HOME IN ASHEBORO, NORTH CAROLINA. LINDA WAS BORN ON NOVEMBER, 9TH, 1941 IN ASHEBORO TO THE LATE NEAL AND RUTH COCKERHAM.

SHE LIVED HER ENTIRE LIFE IN ASHEBORO, EXCEPT DURING THE WAR WHEN SHE LIVED WITH HER PARENTS IN WILMINGTON, NC, WHILE HER DAD WORKED AT THE SHIPYARD.

LINDA WAS A DEDICATED AND LOYAL EMPLOYEE AT THE ASHEBORO PUBLIC LIBRARY FOR OVER 38 YEARS WHERE SHE MADE MANY FRIENDS AND IN 1980, SHE WAS SELECTED BY THE ASHEBORO PILOT CLUB AS THE HANDICAP WOMAN OF THE YEAR. LINDA NEVER LET HER HANDICAPPING CONDITION INTEFERE WITH SPREADIING WARMTH & KINDNESS TO EVERYONE SHE MET. SHE FACED EVERY SITUATION OF HER LIFE WITH A JOYFUL HEART.

LINDA WAS A FAITHFUL MEMBER OF BALFOUR BAPTIST CHRUCH FOR OVER 70 YEARS AND SERVED AS THE CHURCH LIBRARIAN. SHE THOUGHT IT NECESSARY TO READ EVERY BOOK RECEIVED BEFORE SHE PUT IT ON THE SHELVES. READING WAS HER PASSION. EVEN AFTER CLAPPS BECAME HER FOREVER HOME IN 2019, SHE MADE SURE HER NURSES HAD HER TABLET CHARGED UP SO SHE COULD WATCH ALL THE SERVICES AT HER BELOVED CHURCH.

LINDA IS SURVIVED BY HER BROTHER MIKE(ANNE) COCKERHAM OF WILMINGTON, HER SISTER, SUSAN (WILEY) BALLARD OF OCEAN ISLE BEACH AND HAROLD, HER PUPPY, WHO VISITED HER OFTEN AT CLAPPS AND BROUGHT HER SUCH JOY.

NIECES AND NEPHEWS AND EXTENDED FAMILY: KEISHA (JOHN) AKERS AND OWEN, OLIVIA, HARRISON AND HINES AKERS OF MATTHEWS, BEAU (JENNY) ECKARD AND BRAXTON & BRODY ECKARD OF HICKORY, MATT COCKERHAM AND WALKER AND BRYSON COCKERHAM OF WILMINGTON, JOSH (HALEY) COCKERHAM OF WILMINGTON, ALSO, GREG, ANN AND MCCRAY HINSON OF RALEIGH & JOHNNA HARRELSON OF WHITEVILLE.

THE FAMILY WOULD LIKE TO THANK HER CHURCH FAMILY AT BALFOUR FOR ALL THE VISITS, CARDS, PHONE CALLS AND PRAYERS & ALSO TO CLAPPS CONVALESCENT HOME WHO SURROUNDED OUR DEAR SISTER WITH LOVE AND TENDER CARE & WHOM SHE REGARDED AS HER FAMILY, NEVER HOLDING BACK ON SHARING HER FAITH AND HER OPINIONS ON ALL SUBJECTS, WHICH WAS ONE OF HER ENDEARING QUALITIES. FINALLY, SPECIAL THANKS TO "DEE" HER CAREGIVER AND BEST FRIEND, WHO ALWAYS GAVE LINDA UNCONDITIONAL LOVE AND ATTENTION. WE ARE FOREVER GRATEFUL.

A GRAVESIDE SERVICE WILL BE HELD AT NOON ON THURSDAY, AUGUST 29TH AT OAKLAWN CEMETARY 737 ALBEMARLE RD, ST RD 1713, ASHEBORO, NC.

MEMORIALS CAN BE MADE TO: BALFOUR BAPTIST CHURCH LIBRARY, 1642 N FAYETTEVILLE ST ASHEBORO NC 27203 OR ASHEBORO PUBLIC LIBRARY 201 WORTH ST ASHEBORO, NC 27203.