Linda Faye Tarver, 61, of Columbia, passed from this life on Friday, October 28, 2016, at the St. Francis Medical Center – Downtown Monroe Campus, following an extended illness. She was born October 12, 1955 in Columbia to the union of her parents, San Juan Tarver and Argentina America Alanize Tarver. Linda was a school bus driver for the Caldwell Parish School System for many years, she loved to grow vegetable gardens and loved to can her vegetables, and she was a spectacular cook and cooking was a passion of hers. She owned the Sears store in Columbia and worked as manager for Easy Way for many years, and then Aarons after their purchase of Easy Way, until her illness that she fought so hard and so bravely. Services were held at 2 p.m., Sunday, Nov. 6, in the chapel of Riser Funeral Home in Columbia with Bro. Chris Gainous officiating. Other speakers included Fred Hill and Jimmy Strong delivering the eulogy. Interment followed in the Burroughs Garden of Memories Cemetery under direction of Riser Funeral Home of Columbia. She was preceded in death by her parents; her paternal grandparents, Charlie and Eunice Tarver; and her maternal grandparents, Jose Alaniz and Macaria Alaniz. Survivors are her children: son, Jonathan Lee Beckley of Columbia, Catina Faye Beckley and wife Kattie of Grayson; her brother, Kenneth Tarver and wife Jeannie of Columbia; her grandchildren, Hannah Beckley of Lexington, TN and Abbie Beckley of Zachary, LA.
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