Linda Busby

Linda Axman Busby, 60, of Newberry, died Saturday, May 23, 2009 at her residence.

Born on November 8, 1948 in Anderson, she was a daughter of the late Albert Lee and Hazel Craft Axman. Ms. Busby was a graduate of Erskine College and an employee of 30 years at Newberry County Memorial Hospital, a member of the Sunshine Committee at the Newberry Opera House and a Charter member of the Newberry Community Choir having sung with the choir for 15 years. She was a Queen Mother of the “New Girls from the Berry”. She was a member of Smyrna Presbyterian Church where she had various responsibilities such as a choir member, teaching Sunday School and the Women’s Group.

Surviving are her daughter, Emily Busby Metts and her husband, Jonathan of Prosperity; a brother, Lamar Axman and his wife, Deborah of Midlothian, VA; her precious granddaughter, Emma Reese Metts; a nephew, Benjamin Axman and a niece, Whitney Axman both of Midlothian, VA.

Funeral services will be held at 11:00 a.m. Wednesday, May 27, 2009 at Smyrna Presbyterian Church by the Rev. Scott E. Hill. Burial will follow in the church cemetery. Visitation will be Tuesday from 5:30 p.m. – 7:30 p.m. at McSwain-Evans Funeral Home. Memorials may be made to Smyrna Presbyterian Church Building Fund, 32 Smyrna Road, Newberry, SC 29108 or the Palmetto Health Hospice, PO Box 352, Newberry, SC 29108.

Honorary pallbearers: Red Hat Chapter and the Deacons of Smyrna Presbyterian Church

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