Sharon Rita Linn

Born Sharon Rita Copeland, in Melbourne, Arkansas, to Cecil and Emma Lucy Copeland, the first of five children. Sharon grew up in a two-room farmhouse where her dad was a farmer, her mother a gardener and where Sharon picked cotton as a young child to buy her own school clothes. Sharon attended a one room school house in Jumbo Arkansas, where she and her siblings really did have to walk three miles to and from school. Sharon has written in her diary that on these long walks to and from school, a giant Lizard would chase after them and they had to walk by a farm where a huge bull would charge at them with only a small wooden fence to separate the bull. Sharon often told a story about her Granny giving her .50 cents to go to a movie and it costing .35 cents for the movie and popcorn costing .15 cents. Sharon attended Melbourne High School and after graduation left for California to work in the fruit harvest where Sharon met and married Gene Lambert, a daughter was born from this marriage, Teresa Lynn and a son, Ronald Eugene. Sharon also worked for a short time as a Nurses Aid, she always had a way of making you feel better and even the touch of her hand or the sound of her voice was a comfort to all of us, like a night light to a child in the darkness, not to mention her famous potato soup. Sharon moved to Wenatchee, WA, where Sharon met and married the love of her life Jim Linn. This is where Sharon and Jim made a happy home with their son, Ron and daughter, Tricia and made hundreds of happy memories. Sharon was an amazing woman of faith who loved the Lord and read many Bible stories to her kids, grandkids and most recently to her special friend, Ken. Sharon wrote poems, songs and was a self-taught guitarist who later took piano lessons and loved religious and country music, near the end of Sharon’s journey her family played these hymns for Sharon around the clock as she slept peacefully surrounded by her family, before passing into the presence of God almighty and into the arms of her husband. Sharon was preceded in death by her parents, her husband, her oldest daughter, Terry and her grandchild, Anuel W. Goodrich IV. Sharon is survived by her two children, Ron (Diane) Linn and Tricia (Buddy) Goodrich; five grandchildren and two great grandchildren, the oldest born to Ron (Debbie) Linn-Nicole Shantel and James Otis Linn and the youngest three grandkids, Tylon (Tye) Cole Goodrich, Treston Joseph Smothers-Linn and Anuel W. Goodrich V; her two great grandchildren, Camila Flores and Jude James Goodrich; her brothers, Van Douglas (Mary) Copeland, Donald Wayne (Phyllis) Copeland; her sisters, Paulette (Ken) Stratton, Ann Geta Widmer; a very special Aunty, Delores Gillihan that she shared many life experiences with and lots of nieces and nephews along with two lifelong friends who also happened to be sister-in-laws as well, Lucille Linn and Mary Bone, both of Melbourne, Arkansas, who Sharon writes in her diary that one rarely finds in life, the kind of closeness that she shared with these two amazing women. Sharon also leaves a very special friend, Ken Hill, who she loved to dance with and took many adventurous Harley rides. We would like to thank all of our moms’ friends and family that daily packed her hospital room so much that the doctors moved her to a bigger room. Also, Amy Wall-Nurse on the fifth floor, we know you have Angel wings under those scrubs. A Celebration of life will be held on Saturday, January 24, 2015 at 11:00 a.m. at Columbia Grove Covenant Church, 19 McElmurry Lane, East Wenatchee, WA 98802. Meal to follow at same location. Please express your thoughts and memories on the online guest book at jonesjonesbetts.com. Arrangements are by Jones & Jones-Betts Funeral Home.

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Sharon Rita Linn

December 19, 1937 - January 3, 2015