Linda Brandon

Mrs. Linda Lee Redding Brandon went to be with the Lord on December 31, 2024. She passed quietly at her home following a long illness. 

Mrs. Brandon was born in Muskegon, Michigan on February 8, 1950, and was raised in Whitehall, Michigan. She graduated from Orchard View High School in Muskegon in 1969. She moved to Kingston, Tennessee in 1980. She had worked as a nurse’s aide in nursing homes in Michigan and as a restaurant coffee hostess and server in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. She was mainly a homemaker most of her life, where she enjoyed being with her children and being home with them. She greatly loved her family. She also enjoyed word puzzles, jigsaw puzzles, TV game shows and home rehab shows, gardening, art, classic rock-n-roll, 

and reading her Bible. She was of the Jehovah’s Witness faith.

Mrs. Brandon was preceded in death by her parents Leonard R. Redding and Betty Lee Michelman of Whitehall, Michigan and her brother Nathan J. (Jimmy) Redding of Orlando, Florida. Her husband Samuel R. (Roy) Brandon, to whom she was married in 1983, passed away in 2022. 

She is survived by her children Tracy Probst and Betty Carskadon (Keith) of Laingsburg, Michigan; and Jerome Brandon, John Brandon and step-son Paul David Brandon of Kingston, Tennessee. She is survived by her grandchildren Alexandria, Rebekah, Jacob and Briar Carskadon, all of Laingsburg, Michigan. She is also survived by sisters Lyda Redding of Athens, Tennessee, and Debbie Smith (Fred) of Ten Mile, Tennessee, and nephew Lee Daugherty (Amy) and great-nephew Robert Daugherty IV of Crossville, Tennessee.  She is also survived by sister-in-law Jeanette Sexton and her husband Boyd and nephew Vinson Sexton. 

Arrangements will be handled by Knoxville Crematory and Funeral Home with graveside services to be announced at a later date. Burial will be at Wildwood Church Cemetery in the Paint Rock community of Kingston, Tennessee, alongside her husband.