Linda K. Smith, daughter of the late Hoyte and Ida Jurline Presley, was born on August 30, 1949, in Poinsett, Arkansas and departed this life on June 8, 2022, at her residence in Dexter, Missouri, at the age of 72 years.

Mrs. Smith was a homemaker and she attended Faith Fellowship Church in Dexter. She was the glue of the family and loved taking care of everyone especially her grandchildren.

On April 5, 1970, in Buckeye, Arizona, she was united in marriage to Lloyd Smith. Mr. Smith survives of their home in Dexter.

In addition to her husband, she is survived by two sons, Tim Smith of Dexter and Chad Smith of Poplar Bluff; by her daughter, Jewel Lynn Smith of Dexter; by her brother, Dale Presley of Dexter; by her sister, Leann White of Dexter; and by fifteen grandchildren and twenty-one great-grandchildren.

Other than by her parents, she was preceded in death by her daughter, Lisa Kay Smith; by her brother, Harold Presley; and by her sister, Sharon Butler.

Visitation will be held at Mathis Funeral Home in Dexter on Sunday, June 12, 2022, from 1:00 p.m. until 3:00 p.m.

Funeral services will then be conducted in the Mathis Funeral Home Chapel on Sunday, June 12, 2022, at 3:00 p.m. Interment will follow in the Dudley Cemetery.