CONROE FUNERAL DIRECTORS
On June 11, 2024, Linda Annette Richardson died peacefully at her home, surrounded by her children, at the young age of 95.
Linda was born in Austin, Texas, on September 25, 1928, to Clyde and Linda Parrish. She grew up in Austin, Fort Worth, Santa Fe and Artesia, New Mexico. She attended the University of New Mexico and was a Kappa Kappa Gamma. In June of 1950, after graduation and returning to Midland to join her parents, she met and fell in love with the love of her life, Dana Thurston Richardson, Jr. Linda and Dana's life was a true love story, very full with raising five children, traveling in car trips around Texas, vacation homes in Champions area and Winter Park, Colorado. They lived in Houston from 1954 until 1975, when they moved to Corinthian Point on Lake Conroe, where she worked alongside her husband and children on the development of Corinthian Point and Lakewood subdivisions and other businesses on Lake Conroe. With Dana, she helped form the Lake Conroe Association, serving to protect Lake Conroe.
Linda was a member of the Houston Assistance League and founding member of the Conroe Assistance League. She touched everyone she met, and truly lit up every room with her smile, her grace, her elegance, and her fun-loving spirit. She had many friends in Houston and around Lake Conroe, actively playing poker with the girls throughout her life. To know Linda was to love her. Her beautiful, blue eyes were sparkling until the end. She loved her family fiercely, but more than that, she loved our Dad and is finally resting in Heaven with him.
Linda was preceded in death by her husband of 67 years, Dana; her son, Barton Parrish Richardson (Diana); her parents, Clyde and Linda Parrish. She is survived by her four children, Dana Thurston Richardson III (Phyllis), Gary Bruce Richardson (Sheryl), Ben Parrish Richardson (Brenda), Gail Richardson Lane (Burke); 13 grandchildren and 13 great grandchildren. Also surviving her is her beloved cousin, Gail Potts Williamson Rawl of Fort Worth, Texas; and her nephew, David M. Dunwoody (Kackie).
The family would like to thank her precious caregivers, Renee Garrett-Rasmussen and Norma Plank, for tending to both our mother and our father's every need for so long and for loving them as their own.
Donations are requested to be to St. Jude Children's Research Hospital (www.stjude.org) or Shiners Hospital for Children (www.shrinerschildrens.org).
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