Funeral services for Linda Carol Shearin, age 78, of Shelbyville, will be held 6 p.m. Friday, June 30, in the chapel of Doak-Howell Funeral Home with Bro. Eddie Reed officiating. Burial will follow in the Houston-Whitworth Cemetery. Mrs. Shearin passed from this life Wednesday, June 28, 2023, at NHC of Tullahoma.
Visitation with the family will be held one hour prior to the service beginning at 5 p.m. at the funeral home.
Linda was born on February 18, 1945, in Shelbyville, to the late John Edward O’Neal and Iris Margaret Burns O’Neal. Before her retirement in 2008, she worked many years at Empire Pencil Company, and she was a faithful member of Living Stone Church.
Survivors include: her husband of 62 years, John Paul Shearin; daughter, Bernice Wilson; and foster grandson, Daniel Thomas Warren, all of Shelbyville; siblings, Sandra O’Neal and Eddie O’Neal.
Along with her parents Mrs. Shearin is preceded in death by her stillborn son, John Phillip Shearin; siblings, Don O’Neal, Phineas O’Neal, and Gary O’Neal.
Doak-Howell Funeral Home is serving the family.
