Linda Sue (Pierce) McDonald

Warning: Husband’s Version of “Love Yo u More” On October 23, 2021, Linda Sue (Pierce) McDonald decided it was time to leave her incredible 58 plus year journey here on Earth after a brief run-in with that dastardly “female dog” cancer. She is enjoying her exciting new journey in Heaven with her daughter- d o t i n g father Richard Ellis Pierce, caring grandparents John Richard and Gladys Mae (Garner) Pierce, James Thomas Walter and Ethel (Lane) Dreasler, and book reading mother- i n - l a w Charlotte Anne (Hogge) McDonald and many other treasured family and friends from days of yore. Linda leaves behind her loving, studly, bald-headed husband of almost 40 years Troy Allen McDonald, her awesome children Stefany Marie (Jeremy) Phillips, Troy Allen McDonald Jr, Shannon Jean (Carl) Potter, Ethan Lane (Lindsey) McDonald, and her even more awesome grandchildren Mack Braden Phillips, Ford Ellis Phillips and Ethan Lane McDonald Jr, her mother Bertha Deloris (Dreasler) Pierce flanked by her loyal sidekick sisters ( L i n d a ’s aunts) Lucille Jaster and Connie Holland, her father-in-law Douglas Euel McDonald Sr, her b r o t h e r-in-law Douglas Euel (Peggy) McDonald, Jr, her favorite niece Brandy Louise McDonald (Trinity, Audrey, Gage), her favorite nephew Douglas ‘Dougie’ Euel (Steve) McDonald III and so many family and friends too numerous to mention due to limited character space. Linda was born on February 1, 1963, at a hospital in Salem Mo after a treacherous drive on ice covered roads all the way from her hometown in Eminence Mo. She graduated from her beloved Eminence High School in 1 9 8 1 . Go Redwings. S h e met the man of her dreams from the wrong side of the county in the fall of 1979 while working at her aunt and uncle’s Dairy Isle. She seduced him with their delicious food while he was working for starvation wages at the Winona Forest S e r v i c e . They married at Alley Springs on April 10, 1 9 8 2 . She fed him ever since because he was too lazy to get his own food. Their procreation began with Stefany Marie on July 20, 1987, followed by Troy Allen Jr on August 23, 1989, Shannon Jean on February 23, 1992 and Ethan Lane on September 9, 1 9 9 4 . Ethan screamed bloody murder for his first 6 months, so they decided that was enough of that. Linda’s greatest joy in life was being a mother. S h e truly enjoyed her kids and her grandkids even more. Linda worked at M c D o n a l d ’s (family business I wish) for years until it got to be more expensive for her to work than stay home with the kids due to daycare c o s t s . Sound familiar? After Ethan began kindergarten, she started a job working in the Munford Elementary School C a f e t e r i a . She loved that job (and her beloved coworkers) for over 20 years until her latest battle with the devil disease. She was always known to carry her (and her husband’s ) spare change to ensure no child went without ice cream money. Linda loved going to concerts and thoroughly embarrassing her children by spontaneously singing and dancing in her seat and even in the aisles, whenever the singing and dancing gods desired. She loved watching her St. Louis Cardinals baseball and Memphis Tigers basketball. S h e always wanted to be a mascot because she felt she could act as crazy as she wanted and no one would know who she was. S h e was also known to be a bit star-struck on her celebrity encounters, be they local TV/radio personalities or meeting Britney Spears herself in our local Walmart parking lot. Linda loved her many rescue cats over the years after vetoing her husband’s strong objections to which he simply went out and got more rescue dogs. Her caring and healing nature of all animals did not extend to spiders and insects, howeve r, which she’d promptly and gleefully whack like a mafia boss. Linda always had a way with words as well. Like the time she and I were sitting at a stop sign waiting for traff i c to pass and she said in all seriousness “who let the gates out” or when we were listening to an interview (I d o n ’t even remember what of) and she turned to me in all sincerity again and said “well you heard it straight from the horse’s hoof” to which I replied to each it’s “who opened the flood gates” and “straight from the h o r s e ’s mouth”. Then we’d look at each other and burst out laughing until we cried and couldn’t catch our breath a n y m o r e . If you’ve read this long by now you’ve figured out Linda was a fun-loving, carefree spirit who worked incredibly hard and loved even harder. When told “I love you” she’d often respond (if you weren’t given the evil side-eye for something stupid you had just done or said) “I love you more”. Mere words on a page of an obligatory obituary can never express how much I will always deeply love and miss this truly amazing, kind, generous woman who I was lucky enough to call my wife, mother of our children, grandmother of our grandchildren, favorite daughter, daughter in law, sister in law, aunt, niece, cousin and all-around best, most fun friend ever. Until you decide to drag me up there with you (assuming the big guy will allow a jackass like me up there) for having too much fun down here, rest assured, I and everyone else will always “Love You More”. On a housekeeping note, Linda’s funeral information is as follows: Visitation was held at Munford Funeral Home (Munford Chapel) 1136 Tipton Road, Munford, TN on Friday, October 29, 2021. A Graveside Service was held at Munsell Cemetery in Eminence MO on Saturday October 30, 2021 at 2 pm.