Linda Dockery Johnson

JUNE 6, 1947 – OCTOBER 22, 2026

BORN JUNE 6, 1947, TO WALTER JULIAN DOCKERY AND MYRTIE BELL RICE DOCKERY. SHE IS THE YOUNGER SISTER OF JULIA FAYE SMITH AND TWIN SISTER OF BRENDA GAYLE DOCKERY. AT THE AGE OF 12 LINDA EXPERIENCED THE PAINFUL LOSS OF HER FATHER TO CANCER. YEARS LATER MYRTIE REMARRIED THE MAN THAT CAME TO BE KNOWN AS PAPA (PAWPAW), JAMES CAREY MCJENKINS. HE WAS A WONDERFUL FATHER TO THE THREE GIRLS.

LINDA GRADUATED FROM TUSCALOOSA HIGH SCHOOL, CLASS OF 1965.

IN LINDA’S MID LIFE YEARS, SHE WAS A MEMBER OF TOASTMASTERS INTERNATIONAL. SHE PERFORMED AS OUISER BOUDREAUX IN THE ST JOHN COMMUNITY THEATRE VERSION OF STEEL MAGNOLIAS TO WHICH HER FAVORITE LINE WAS “I’m not crazy, I've just been in a very bad mood 40 years!”

LINDA SPENT 28 YEARS WORKING FOR WALMART IN LAPLACE. SHE RETIRED IN 2016 AND MOVED TO INDEPENDENCE WITH HER DAUGHTER ALANA AND SON IN LAW TRAVIS. AFTER RETIREMENT LINDA FOUND A LOVE FOR ART AND TOOK PAINTING CLASSES. SHE WAS A REGULAR AT RIZZO’S WATCHING THE FRIDAY NIGHT ELVIS SHOW. SHE BECAME A STUDENT AT SOUTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY IN HAMMOND. HER FIRST SEMESTER SHE TOOK ART WHICH SHE LOVED. HER SECOND SEMESTER SHE TOOK BASIC PHOTOGRAPHY TO WHICH THERE WAS NOTHING BASIC ABOUT IT. SHE LEARNED TO SHOOT PHOTOS IN RAW FORMAT AND HOW TO EDIT IN LIGHT ROOM. ON THE DAYS THAT SHE FELT SHE NEEDED MORE INSTRUCTION SHE WOULD STAY FOR THE NEXT CLASS. SHE WOULD SPEND HOURS IN THE LAB TRYING TO COMPLETE HER ASSIGNMENTS. AS MUCH AS SHE WANTED TO GIVE UP, SHE DID NOT.

LINDA HAD A LOVE FOR FOOTBALL WITH HER FAVORITE TEAM BEING ALABAMA. SHE WOULD WATCH FOOTBALL ANYTIME IT WAS ON TV, OFTEN WATCHING RERUNS JUST TO GET HER FOOTBALL FIX. SHE WOULD NOT LEAVE THE HOUSE DURING FOOTBALL SEASON WHILE A GAME WAS ON.

LINDA ENJOYED FEEDING THE SQUIRRELS AND BIRDS. SHE ENJOYED THE COUNTRY LIFE. SHE LOVED TAKING CARE OF HER GRAND PUPS BELLA AND LILLY BELLE.

LINDA IS SURVIVED BY HER SISTER JULIA FAYE SMITH AND HER HUSBAND JIM. TWIN-SISTER BRENDA GAYLE DOCKERY AND HER LATE HUSBAND JIM. BROTHERS JIM MCJENKINS AND HIS LATE WIFE SUE ELLEN, DON MCJENKINS AND HIS WIFE CEAL. DAUGHTERS, ELIZABETH (LISA) TYNER AND HER HUSBAND LANE OF TUSCALOOSA ALABAMA, ALANA BERTHELOT AND HER HUSBAND TRAVIS OF INDEPENDENCE LOUISIANA, SARA HARRINGTON AND HER HUSBAND TIM OF SPOKANE WASHINGTON, HER SON CHRISTOPHER FAULKNER, AND HIS WIFE RAMSI OF LAPLACE LOUISIANA.

LINDA IS SURVIVED BY HER GRANDCHILDREN, STEPHANIE STONE AND HER HUSBAND ROBBIE, JOSHUA TYNER AND HIS WIFE PRISCILLA, TWIN GRANDSONS DYLAN, AND DUSTIN HIDALGO, AND MYRACLE REVON, SEVEN GREAT GRANDCHILDREN, AND A HOST OF NIECES AND NEPHEWS.

LINDA WAS PRECEDED IN DEATH BY HER PARENTS, WALTER JULIAN DOCKERY, MYRTIE RICE DOCKERY MCJENKINS, JAMES CAREY MCJENKINS AND HER GRANDSON ZACHARY CALEB TYNER.