August 2, 1937 – February 16, 2023
Linnie E. Boyett Martin, age 85, passed away Thursday, February 16, 2023, at Memorial Hospital in Bainbridge, Georgia. Services for Mrs. Martin will be held at 11:00 a.m., Monday, February 20, at Calvary Baptist Church. The Rev. Terry Holt will officiate. An interment will be held at Roselawn Memory Gardens. The grandsons of Mrs. Martin will serve as pallbearers. The family will receive friends one hour before the service beginning at 10:00.
Linnie E. Boyett was born August 2, 1937, in Amsterdam, Georgia to Leondies W. Boyett and Varna C. Johnson Boyett. Linnie graduated from Climax High School. She was very athletic and excelled on the basketball court. Linnie loved to read, shop and travel. She sang in a Gospel group called the Dixie Rainbows and worked as a switchboard operator for the Bainbridge State Hospital. A wonderful, doting mother, grandmother, great grandmother and great-great grandmother, Linnie loved her family and God with all her heart and soul. Loved dearly by her family and many, many friends, she will be deeply missed.
Linnie E. Boyett Martin is survived by her children, Donald Ray Anderson of Havana, Florida, Charlotte Denise Golden, Lyndon Boyd Anderson, Gregory Doyle Anderson (Kimberly) all of Bainbridge, and Sharon Melissa Helms of Youngstown, Florida; sister, Flora Nell Hughes of Climax, Georgia; grandchildren, Keila Anderson (Shelby), Walter Jessup Anderson, Tommie Joe Shields (Brandon), Dana Stokes, Alexis Finney, Jenna McConnell (Joseph), Brian Alday, (Ashley), Ashston Anderson, Payton Anderson, Wesley Helms, and Braxton Helms; a host of great-grandchildren, great-great grandchildren and many nieces and nephews. She was preceded in death by her parents, husbands, Billy Ray Anderson and W. D. Martin, son, Ronald Odell Anderson, and siblings, Levon Boyett, Elmer Boyett, and Odell Boyett.
On-line condolences may be sent at www.Coxfuneral.net. Cox Funeral Home in charge of arrangements.
I still can’t believe you are truly gone. I miss you more and more with each passing day. Why didn’t you tell me you were sick?? we went through so many bad happenings together.. I can still see you in that favorite chair of yours and you would be watching baseball and drinking coffee. We worked in your yards together and WE LAUGHED. most anything could get us to laughing. The trips to the beach 🏖️ especially the one with the long , long bridge. and when we finally got to where we were going and i put on the brakes all the bottles in the trunk started rattling !! we sounded like winos. I loved you all those years ago and still do. only wish you could be healed and back here. I know you are better off in Heaven but the selfish wanting you back comes on strong. Gayle