Linda Kathryn (Tarwater) Firth, 77, Kansas City, Kansas passed away December 5, 2021. A visitation for Linda will be from 10-11 AM, with a funeral service beginning at 11 AM, Friday, December 10, 2021 at Chapel Hill-Butler Funeral Home, 701 N. 94th St., Kansas City, Kansas. Interment will be immediately following in Chapel Hill Memorial Gardens. Fond memories and condolences for the family may be left at www.chapelhill-butler.com.
Linda was born on February 21, 1944 in Kansas City, Missouri to Kenneth and Marian (Browning) Tarwater. She was married to Richard Firth on May 1, 1963 and they made their home in Kansas City, Kansas.
Linda was a homemaker and proud full-time mother to her two daughters. She was involved with Kansas City, Kansas School District PTA as her daughters went through school. She loved to spend time gardening and tending to her flower beds. Linda also enjoyed cooking, baking, sewing and refinishing furniture. She had a love of all animals, especially her cats and her beloved dog, Cody.
Linda was preceded in passing by her husband, Richard in 1993 and brother, Gordon Tarwater.
Left to always cherish her memory are her daughters, Rebecca (John) Schoenberger of Holden, Missouri and Annette (Dagoberto) Rivas of Kansas City, Kansas; grandchildren, Samantha (Schoenberger) Elsloo, Stephanie Schoenberger, Sabrina Schoenberger, Sylvia Schoenberger, Allison Turner, Roxanna Turner, Richard Rivas and Victoria Rivas; and sisters, Joan Tarwater and Susan Arnold.