Linda Sue England

Memorial services for Linda Sue England, 70, will be held at 2:00 PM, Tuesday, January 13, 2015 at Anderson Bethany Chapel with Pastor Jack Ferguson officiating. Sue passed away at her home surrounded by her loving family on Friday, January 9, 2015. She was born in Oklahoma City, OK, May, 22, 1944 to Norville Neal Gullion and Wilma Charlotte “Cy” Gullion. At the age of 11, her family moved to Greenville, TX. She was the captain of the girls varsity basketball team her senior year. She graduated with honors from Greenville High School in 1962 and later that year she began working at Western Union and then transferred to Wichita Falls, TX. In 1964 she was transferred to Roswell, NM where she met her life’s love, Asa Lee England. They were married on March 21,1965. Sue sold Tupperware, Avon, water softeners, baby-sat and baked bread to sell at the flea market on the weekends to help with the family income while raising her daughter Ayesha Lynn Engalnd. In 1977 she went to work as a nurse’s aide at St. Mary’s Hospital. She fell in love with the profession and enrolled in nursing school that year. After receiving her LPN degree, she became the first recipient of St. Mary’s Hospital Nursing Scholarship and graduated as an RN in 1982. She worked in ICU for many years before becoming an ER nurse where she flourished and found her true passion: Trauma Nursing. Because of her excellent caregiving skills and leadership she quickly became the night shift charge nurse. She was an excellent teacher and taught First Aid and CPR. She returned to school to become an instructor and taught other nurses in PALS, ACLS and TCNN. She worked at St. Mary’s for 11 years until it was sold to Chaves County and became ENMMC-South. When they closed the south location she joined the north ER. She remained with ENMMC after the county sold the hospital to CHS in Tennessee and worked for 21 years ending her career as ER chart auditor. She was an avid book reader, an accomplished crafter and collector. Her favorite collection other than her books, was her beloved turtles. Those left to cherish her memory are her beloved husband Asa Lee England; her daughter Ayesha Lynn Kurtz; her granddaughters Tara Leigh and Tabitha Ann Kurtz; her great granddaughter Abigale Rose Brewton; her four-legged babies Mister and Sugar; her sister Patricia Mae Foley and her husband Dewey Foley; and numerous nieces, nephews and good friends. Sue was preceded in death by her parents Norville and Wilma “Cy” Guillon and grandson Nikki Lee Kurtz.

Linda Sue England

May 22, 1944 - January 9, 2015