Services for Linda Sue Wallace Fletcher of West Monroe, Louisiana will be held at 2:00 P.M., Sunday, January 19, 2025 in the chapel of Kilpatrick Funeral Home, 1321 North 7th Street, West Monroe, Louisiana. Dewey Wood from New Chapel Hill Baptist Church will officiate. Interment will follow at Roselawn Memorial Gardens in Calhoun next toContinue Reading
Services for Linda Sue Wallace Fletcher of West Monroe, Louisiana will be held at 2:00 P.M., Sunday, January 19, 2025 in the chapel of Kilpatrick Funeral Home, 1321 North 7th Street, West Monroe, Louisiana. Dewey Wood from New Chapel Hill Baptist Church will officiate. Interment will follow at Roselawn Memorial Gardens in Calhoun next to her beloved husband “Bob” (Robert Gale) Fletcher. Visitation will be held prior to the service starting at 1:00 P.M. at the funeral home.
Linda was born on November 22, 1945 in Monroe, Louisiana. She was the third daughter born to Edith Juanita Rockett and William Douglas Wallace, Jr. Linda passed away on January 10, 2025 at Stoney Brook Memory Care in West Monroe, Louisiana where she had come to reside in 2024. Linda was in her last moments back “home” with not only her family but also caregivers who loved her as well.
Linda graduated from West Monroe High School in 1963. She went to Northwestern Louisiana University where she met and subsequently married Donnie Ray Willis. They had one daughter, Renee’, born in Alexandria, Louisiana in 1964. Donnie graduated in 1967 with a BS in Health/Physical Education and Linda quickly followed graduating in 1968 with a BS in Home Economics Education. Linda began her career as a home economics teacher (first at Baker Junior High, Baker, Louisiana and later at Bolton High School in Alexandria, Louisiana). She left teaching to pursue a dietetics degree in Ruston, Louisiana at Louisiana Tech University and received her MS in 1973 in Institutional Management and Dietetics. Linda was an ADA Registered Dietician as well as held State of Louisiana certifications as a teacher and supervisor for child nutrition programs. She worked in the field of hospital dietetics/nutrition at several hospitals and institutions in North and Central Louisiana. (Assistant Dietician Baptist Hospital Alexandria, Louisiana; Assistant Dietician, Huey P Long Hospital Pineville, Louisiana; Chief Dietician, Pinecrest State School/Hospital Pineville, Louisiana; Consultant Dietician, Physicians & Surgeon’s Clinic Alexandria, Louisiana; Director of Food Services, St Frances Cabrini Hospital Alexandria, Louisiana; Staff Dietician, Confederate Memorial Medical Center, Shreveport, Louisiana). Linda and Donnie Willis divorced and afterward she and Renee moved from Shreveport to West Monroe, Louisiana. Linda married Robert Gale (“Bob”) Fletcher December 11, 1977. Bob was an engineer at LP&L and the love of Linda’s life. Bob always said he was the “Boss” but everyone knew that she actually was. He would do absolutely anything for her! For 25 years, Linda worked for the Louisiana State Department of Education as a State Supervisor for School Feeding Programs. She eventually grew to managing programs in 21 parishes/city school systems across Louisiana before she retired.
Linda had a great many talents. She had a beautiful singing voice. She was outgoing, made friends easily and was a gracious hostess. Linda loved reading, art, music, decorating, flower-arranging, cooking, and entertaining. She loved plants/flowers and gardening. She was continually working in her yard to keep it a “showplace.” Linda decorated both house and yard for all major and minor holidays. She hosted many family events and loved her family greatly.Between them Linda and Bob had no biological children but shared four daughters and several grandchildren as well as numerous pets. She was very proud of all the grandchildren and their accomplishments. Linda loved and treasured her great-grandson, Leo. She adored watching Leo “grow up so very big” on her electronic photo frame. Her face truly lit up any time his picture came up be it one as a newborn or as a “big boy.” Holding Leo, his MeMe said was “one of her biggest joys in her life” adding “He is hope for the future.”
Linda loved almost all animals, snakes being the one definite exception! Over her lifetime she had numerous pets. She almost always had a dog. Bob and Linda loved Honey and Miss Kitty (the cat) who adopted Linda. Beau followed Honey and after Beau died, Bob and Linda adopted Bear(a German Shepherd mix). Bear became Linda’s constant companion always at her side after Bob died in August of 2017. Linda adored all of her “grand-dogs” as well. Dixie Belle (Beau’s daughter) was Linda and Bob’s very first “grand-dog.” Dixie was loved greatly by them despite eating large holes through the screen porch as a puppy prior to becoming a gift to the three Wise grandchildren! Linda or “MeMe” as she was known to her grandchildren and great grandson freely admitted she at times preferred the “grand-dogs” over their “human parents”! Auggie, Finn, Jasper, Mylo, Anya, and Honey will all miss their MeMe.
Linda is preceded in death by her parents and her husband, Robert Gale Fletcher. She missed Bob greatly every single day and after watching the sunset when the stars came out she told him goodnight every single night. Linda did this even in the rain sitting on her covered porch but much preferred sitting outside on the rocker glider to watch the stars. She did not like the cloudy nights!
Linda is survived by her daughter, Dr. Charlotte Renee’ Willis Wise and husband James A.of Little Rock, Arkansas and their children, Katherine Wise Biscontini and husband Gene of Honesdale, Pennsylvania, Andrew J. Wise, PhD of Lafayette, Louisiana, Lauren N. Wise, DVM of Keller, TX; one great-grandson, Leo Biscontini (Age 3); two older sisters, who she annoyed greatly when she was a young child but who loved her dearly, Eleanor Wallace Singleton of West Monroe, Louisiana, Rebecca W. Saunders of Sealy, Texas; three nieces and a nephew, Phyllis W. Scroggin, Cindy W. Watson and husband Randy Watson all of West Monroe, Louisiana, Debbie Waddell, David Waddell and wife Monica, all of Sealy, Texas; grandniece and grandnephew, Melissa Thompson, PhD and husband Patrick as well as their son, Caden, of Lafayette, Louisiana, Dr. Matt Watson and wife Christine Watson as well as their daughter, Olivia, of Edinburg, Texas;
Linda remembered Laura Fletcher Keegan, her son Kurt and husband Pete Keegan. She enjoyed seeing them every time they visited. Back in her long term memory, Linda also carried very fond memories of Brenda Fletcher Petrus as well as Kyle and Caleb Semmes although she remembered Kyle and Caleb more as younger children than the adults they have become over time.
The family would like to thank Dr. Howard Murray and the staff of Glenwood Regional Medical Center ICU, the staff of Stoneybrook Memory Care and Dr. Rajiv Doddamani.
Pallbearers will be James Wise, Randy Watson, Andrew Wise, Gene Biscontini, Jacob Bogenschuetz, & Brandon Paine.
In lieu of flowers, donations are requested to be made in memory of Linda Fletcher to the Dementia Society of America, animal rescue organization, or any charitable organization of your choice.
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