Linda Galloway

Linda Bennett Galloway

Linda Bennett Galloway died Thursday, Jan. 9, 2014 at Wayne Memorial Hospital surrounded by her family.

Linda was born August 8, 1917 in Dixon, KY, the daughter of the late Bonnie Fugate and Charles Wesley Bennett. She was a graduate of Stephens College, University of Illinois, University of Illinois Graduate Library School and Vanderbilt University. She was a member of Delta Delta Delta Sorority.

Linda was a librarian at East Side Library in Evanville, IN. She left Evansville to serve as librarian with the Armed Forces at Camp Breckinridge, KY. She remained there until she went to France just before the end of World  War II to set up libraries for the Assembly Area Command. Linda then went to Germany with Patton’s 15th Army which was assigned the task of writing the history of WWII. She remained with USFET, Historical Division until 1946 when she returned to the states and married Ernest Agnew Galloway. 

She was an author of the book “Andrew Jackson, Jr., Son of a President.” She is listed in Who’s Who of American Women, Who’s Who of the South and Southwest, 2000 Women of Achievement and Personalities of the South. In Kentucky she was active with the Red Cross, the Webster County Library, the Webster County Schools, the Dixon Woman’s Club, the Garden Club and taught Sunday School for years.

Linda moved to Goldsboro in 1962 and lived at the Village of Walnut Creek. She was librarian with the Goldsboro Schools and Direrctor of Media Services for the Wayne County Schools until her retirement in 1982. She was a member of the DAR, the Colonel Dames of the XVII Century, the Goldsboro Woman’s Club, Evergreen Garden Club, Walnut Creek Country Club, Delta Kappa Gamma and First Presbyterian Church. Linda was a loving wife, mother and grandmother.

She is survived by her daughter Lisa Galloway Reck and her husband, Daniel; two grandchildren, Amanda and Bennett.

Services were conducted at 2 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 12, 2014 in the chapel of Seymour Funeral Home with the Rev. Carol Pearson officiating. 

Burial was in Willow Dale  Cemetery. 

Memorials may be made to First Presbyterian Church, 1101 E. Ash Street, Goldsboro, NC, 27530 or the charity of your choice.

Online condolences may be sent to the family at www.seymourfuneralhome.com.                               paid