Linda Gail Curtis, 57

A self-employed worker with Home and Garden Party, she was a member of Whorton Springs Baptist Church and was the daughter of the late Cecil and Marjorie Caldwell Thweatt. She was also preceded in death by her husband, Joe Larry Curtis.

She is survived by son and daughter-in-law Mark and Benita Byars of Smithville, stepson Roger Curtis of McMinnville, foster son Billy Bogle of Smithville, sister Cecil Kier of Las Vegas, Nev., and grandchildren Cody Byars, Courtney Byars and Jodi Curtis of Smithville and Caitlyn and Cierra Parsons of Reno, Nev.

Services are today at 1 p.m. at DeKalb Funeral Chapel with Bro. Jerry Harwell and Bro. David Mahan officiating. Burial will follow at Whorton Springs Cemetery.

DeKalb Funeral Chapel is in charge of arrangements.

Southern Standard

(McMinnville, Tenn.) May 10, 2006