Lynda Dean Gross, 67, of 3522 Belltown Road; Hartford, Ky., died Monday, Jan. 19, 2015, at Owensboro Health Regional Hospital. Lynda Dean Decker was born May 28, 1947, in Greenville, Ky., to the late Tilford and Pairlee Winfield Decker and was married to James Edward Gross on Oct. 16, 1987.
Lynda was a member of Nickel Ridge Holiness Church of Daviess County, where she was a Sunday School teacher and helped in the church plays. She worked at Murphy Miller and Bob’s IGA in Hartford, and was a homemaker. Lynda enjoyed cooking, loved her family and getting to visit with her children and grandchildren, but would always put Jesus first. She was a Girl Scout leader for Troop 5 for 13 years and a member of the Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels. In addition to her parents, Lynda was preceded in death by a grandson, Steve Willis and by two sisters, Geneva Allen and Edna Decker.
Survivors include her husband of 27 years, James Edward Gross; her children, Brandon James “B.J.” Gross, of Hartford, Brittney Diana “Dana” Cauley and husband, Jeff, of Owensboro, Janet Willis and husband, Danny, of Owensboro, Jamie Lee Gross, of Livermore, and Dwayne Edward Saunders, of Fordsville; nine grandchildren; 12 great-grandchildren; and a brother, Bobby Neal Decker, of Knox, Ind.
Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. Thursday at Muster Funeral Homes, Calhoun Chapel with the Revs. Ancle Wilson and Clettis Sinnett officiating. Burial will be in the Calhoun Cemetery in McLean County. Friends may visit with Lynda’s family from 4 p.m. until 8 p.m. Wednesday and from 9 a.m. until 11 a.m. Thursday at Musters in Calhoun.
The Lynda Dean Gross family requests that expressions of sympathy take the form of donations to the Lynda Dean Gross, Memorial Fund; C/O Muster Funeral Homes; P.O. Box 160; Calhoun, Kentucky 42327. Memorial contribution envelopes will be available at Musters in Calhoun.
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