Linda Brown Kelley

Linda Jean Brown Kelley, 71, of Prosperity, died Sunday, October 16, 2016, at Agape Hospice House.

Born on February 18, 1945, in Newberry, she was a daughter of the late Richard Warner and Nelva Adams Brown. She was a graduate of Mid Carolina High School and was Miss Mid Carolina in 1963. She worked for SCE&G at the VC Summer Nuclear Station. Mrs. Kelley was a member of Macedonia Lutheran Church and the UDC Drayton Rutherford Chapter 152. She was an EMT-I and was a member of Lake Murray Rescue Squad and a former assistant chief of the Little Mountain Rescue Squad. Mrs. Kelley was a PADI certified open water diver, trained in repelling and was an experienced recovery and rescue diver. She was also a certified operator of the Jaws of Live.

She is survived by her husband, Victor J. Kelley, Jr.; a daughter, Pamela Smith (Robert) Brookman; a son, Keith Smith; step-sons, Victor “Trey” Kelley III and John Ezzell; sisters, Peggy Joyce (Dick) Stepp, Barbara Alice (Frank) Lyerly, Martha (Charlie) Taylor and Ruthie Hamm; a brother, Tommy (Janet) Brown; grandchildren, Meagen Brookman (Jake) Price, McKenzie Brookman, Gaivnion, Maggie and McKenna Smith, Lizzy and Brennan Kelley and great-grandchildren, Brooklyn and Jameson Price.

Funeral services will be held at 6:00 pm Tuesday, October 18, 2016, at McSwain-Evans Funeral Home by the Rev. Randall Derrick. The family will receive friends following the service. Interment will be Wednesday, October 19, 2016, at 2:00 pm at the Salisbury National Cemetery in Salisbury, NC. Memorials may be made to the Myasthenia Gravis Foundation of America, 355 Lexington Avenue, 15 ^th Floor, New York, NY 10017.

Active pallbearers will be Gaivnion Smith, Robert Brookman, Jake Price and Matthew Boger.

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