Linda Harris

Funeral Services for Linda Joy Harris, 57 of Baxter will be Sunday, July 17 at 2 P.M. from the Baxter Chapel of Hooper Huddleston Horner Funeral Home with interment in Harris Family Cemetery in the Boma Community. Miss Harris was dead on arrival at Cookeville Regional Medical Center Thursday afternoon, July 14, 2011. She was born February 23, 1954 in Putnam County to Pearl Jernigan Harris of Baxter and the late John West Harris. She was a 1972 Graduate of Upperman High School in Baxter and member of Friendship Church of God. She was also a member of Post Polio Foundation and did a lot of work through that organization in speaking about overcoming many of the difficulties she faced in her life with polio. In addition to her father she was preceded in death by a nephew: Joshua Martin. Survivors in addition to her mother include sister & brother-in-law Sandy and Wanas Martin of Cookeville, brother Larry Harris of Baxter, nieces & nephews: Tawna (Clint) Kelley, Rainn (Lena) Martin, Autumn (Eric) Boucher, Sherry (Lynn) Burton, Dana Harrison, John (Leslie) Harris, Michael Harris, Anthony Harris and Hugo Crawford, several great nieces & nephews. Bro. Chris Smith will officiate. Family & friends will serve as pallbearers. Family will receive friends Saturday from 3 to 8 P.M. and after 10 A.M. Sunday at the funeral home.