He was born in the outskirts of Auburn, GA, the youngest and last survivor of ten children born to Erskine O'Dillon Lindsay and Lucy Leona Green. He grew up in and around Dacula and was the last surviving member of the Dacula High School class of 1938. After high school, following a brief period of service in the Civilian Conservation Corps, he enlisted in the U.S Army Air Corps in 1940. He attended the University of Maryland University College during his military service. After brief assignments in Alabama and Texas he was stationed at Lockbourne Army Airfield in Columbus, OH, where he met Margie Louise Stephens to whom he was married on May 6, 1944. Together, they completed twenty years of military service and travel until his retirement from the U.S. Air Force with the rank of Master Sergeant. During his military career his duty assignments outside of the contiguous U.S. included Elmendorf Air Base in Anchorage where he was an aircraft mechanic and flight engineer on the Boeing B-29 Superfortress. Later, he was sent to North Africa and assigned to Wheelus Air Base in the Kingdom of Libya where he also served as head basketball coach of the USAF traveling goodwill basketball team. He was honorably discharged in 1960 at Chanute Air Force Base, and returned to Dacula where he and Margie purchased Dacula Quality Grocery on Main Street in Dacula and operated it until 1974. During this same period, he purchased a beef cattle and hog farm in Harbins which he operated until 2008. He and Margie were members of Dacula First United Methodist Church since the early 1960s. He was appointed in 1964 to the Gwinnett County Municipal Planning and Zoning Commission where he continued to serve until 1991, including one term as the board's chairman. He also served several terms on the Gwinnett County Farm Bureau's Board of Directors. He was preceded in death by his wife of 68 years, Margie; son, Thomas Carl Lindsay; and son-in-law, Phillip Wayne Hall; siblings, Ola, Myrtie, Elsie, Lucy, Blondean, Allean, Carl, Tom and Thelma. He is survived by his children, Winford (Buck) Vernon Lindsay, Jr, (Cindy) of Duluth, Diane Louise Hall of Dacula, and Chris Alan Lindsay (Elizabeth) of Bogart; five grandchildren and two great grandchildren: Winford (Trey) Vernon Lindsay, III of New York, New York, Ryan Alexander Lindsay, (Marisa) of Alpharetta, Amanda Whiteshield-Lomax, (Aaron Brinkman) of Dacula, Candace Elizabeth Nichole Stanley (Jonathan) of Athens, Mary Hannah Moriah Lindsay of West Columbia, SC, Naomi Claire Lindsay of Alpharetta and Jackson Patrick Lee Stanley of Athens; brother-in-law, Edward Lawrence Stephens (Judie) of Fort Myers, FL; and sister-in-law, Mary Josephine Abel of Newark, OH.