Funeral services for Vernon Lee Linton, Jr. will be at 11:00 a.m. on Wednesday, April 30, 2014 at South Park Baptist Church, 2201 82nd Street, with Rev. Doug Kello officiating. U.S. Navy Honors will be observed. Vernon passed away on April 23 in Lubbock. He was born on November 10, 1926 in Onalaska, Texas to Vernon Lee Linton and Opal Faircloth Linton. After high school, he joined the Navy and served on active duty during WWII. He met Sylvia Marie Bienn in New Orleans and they married on April 6, 1946. After his military service, he graduated from the University of Houston as a Mechanical Engineer and worked in Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas for Phillips Oil Company. After several years of service with a Naval Reserve unit in Oklahoma City, he returned to active duty with the Navy and retired in 1979 as a lieutenant commander. He then began his third career as the Director of Facilities Management at Texas Tech Health Sciences Center and retired from there in 1991. He also completed a Master's Degree in Public Administration from the University of Northern Colorado. Sylvia preceded him in death after 66 years of marriage. He is survived by one son and one daughter: Ben and Kit Linton and Becky and John Albin; five grandchildren: April Linton, Rachel Linton, Sarah and Todd Konkel, Amy and Andy Nickel, Scott and Denae Albin; and one great grandchild: Zachary Konkel.
Funeral services for Vernon Lee Linton, Jr. will be at 11:00 a.m. on Wednesday, April 30, 2014 at South Park Baptist Church, 2201 82nd Street, with Rev. Doug Kello officiating. U.S. Navy Honors will be observed. Vernon passed away on April 23 in Lubbock. He was born on November 10, 1926 in Onalaska, Texas to Vernon Lee Linton and Opal Faircloth Linton. After high school, he joined the Navy and served on active duty during WWII. He met Sylvia Marie Bienn in New Orleans and they married on April 6, 1946. After his military service, he graduated from the University of Houston as a Mechanical Engineer and worked in Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas for Phillips Oil Company. After several years of service with a Naval Reserve unit in Oklahoma City, he returned to active duty with the Navy and retired in 1979 as a lieutenant commander. He then began his third career as the Director of Facilities Management at Texas Tech Health Sciences Center and retired from there in 1991. He also completed a Master's Degree in Public Administration from the University of Northern Colorado. Sylvia preceded him in death after 66 years of marriage. He is survived by one son and one daughter: Ben and Kit Linton and Becky and John Albin; five grandchildren: April Linton, Rachel Linton, Sarah and Todd Konkel, Amy and Andy Nickel, Scott and Denae Albin; and one great grandchild: Zachary Konkel.
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