Linda Grover Stackpole

Entered into rest on Wednesday, 11th December 2024, Linda Stackpole, 77.

Linda Lee Stackpole was born in Lansdowne Pennsylvania on 4th December 1947 and was raised there by her parents Leon Rex Grover, Jr. and Dora Carrie Scheetz Grover along with Linda’s older brother Leon Rex Grover, III. Her father was in the Navy and the family moved to five more locations over the next eight years, including Darby Pennsylvania, Thorofare New Jersey, Chevy Chase Maryland, Key West Florida, and Norfolk Virginia.

It was while they lived in Norfolk that Linda’s sister Jane Ellen was born. Since the military frequently moved them as assignments became available, they then moved on to Sanford Florida. It was during their stay in Sanford that Linda’s father died in 1954 while serving as a pilot on an aircraft carrier located in the eastern Mediterranean.

In 1955, Linda’s mother met a young man while the two of them were acting at a local amateur playhouse. Later that year Linda’s mother married this young man—William (Bill) E. Herschel—and became Mrs. Dora Carrie Herschel. Soon afterward, they found a newly constructed home they both fell in love with and in 1956 the family moved to Winter Park Florida. The children were young when Linda’s mother remarried, and they all considered Bill Herschel as “Dad” throughout the rest of their childhood.

Six years later Linda was attending Glenridge Middle School where she met her soon-to-be high school sweetheart, Arthur (Art) Stackpole, while both were in the 9th grade. Over the next four years they were inseparable, and after high school they went on to study at the University of Florida where Linda became a member of the Sigma Kappa sorority and Art joined the Pi Kappa Phi fraternity. Linda and Art were married in their junior year of college and moved to an apartment off-campus. Linda graduated from the university in December 1969 with a bachelor’s degree in physical education. Art graduated a few months later with a bachelor’s degree in building construction.

Upon Art’s graduation, Linda and Art moved to Gaithersburg Maryland just in time to experience a light snow on Easter Sunday while staying at a hotel during an apartment search in their new town. In October 1970, Linda and Art started their family with the birth of Shawna Lynn and in December 1972 they added Arthur Bryon Jr. to the family.

While Linda juggled two young children and working at the Pizza Barn in Gaithersburg, she and Art bought a home near Frederick Maryland. Linda took a job as a short-order cook in a People’s Drug Store. After the birth of Stacy Lynn in December 1978, Linda chose to stay home full-time to pour her heart and soul into raising their three children. Linda loved to garden, cook, and bake, was actively involved in her children’s studies and extra-curricular activities, chaperoned almost every field trip and Stacy’s traveling basketball games, was a volunteer in the Girl Scouts of America cookie program, and helped Shawna care for her horse, Rusty.

In 1981 Art’s job relocated the family to Lutterworth, England where they had the chance to live out their love of travel, extensively touring Britain and visiting many European and African countries. Some of the highlights included touring the Vatican and St Peters Basilica, visiting a bull fighting ring and seeing Santa Claus in shorts and driving a Jeep at Christmas time in Spain, viewing so many paintings by the masters in the Netherlands, touring Versailles in France, placing a prayer note in the Wailing Wall in Jerusalem, walking through the Parthenon, seeing the Pyramids in Egypt, and riding camels in Morocco. 

After returning to the United States in 1984, Linda had the opportunity to join Art as a business partner and Vice President of Stackpole Enterprises, Inc., a project management consulting firm. Later she worked at Prudential. Work ultimately led them to their final home in Evans, Georgia in 1992.

A member of Martinez United Methodist Church for more than 30 years, Linda was also a key member of the building committee, planning and overseeing construction of an annex to the main church building in 2005.

Linda enjoyed games and puzzles, was an avid viewer of Florida Gator sports, Jeopardy, and Wheel of Fortune, and loved to play cards and board games. Some of her more recent activities included reading historical romance and time travel novels, counted cross-stitching, enjoying Mah Jongg, Samba, and Canasta games with her friends from the Augusta Newcomer’s Club, crosswords, word scrambles and playing timed Solitaire. 

Family members include her husband Arthur B. Stackpole, Sr., son A. Bryon Stackpole, Jr. (wife Lori Stackpole and grandchildren Christopher and Sophia) of Mason Ohio, daughter Stacy Lynn Moore (husband Keith Moore) of Gilbert South Carolina, son-in-law Rick Corun (grandson Wade) of Greencastle Pennsylvania, her brother Rex Grover of Orlando Florida and her three sisters Jane Pope of Jacksonville Florida, Debi Symes of Osmington England, and Kim Richardson of Lakeland Florida.

Linda was preceded in death by her daughter Shawna Lynn Corun of Greencastle Pennsylvania, her father Leon Rex Grover, Jr. of Moorefield West Virginia, and her mother Dora Carrie Herschel (née Scheetz, formerly Grover) of Philadelphia Pennsylvania.

The family will receive friends on Tuesday, 7th January 2025 at 2:00 pm, with Dr. Stephen Sams officiating a Memorial service at 3:00 pm in the chapel at Thomas Poteet & Son in Evans, Georgia.

The Memorial service will also be live-streamed (accessed at the link below) for out-of-town friends and relatives, and for those unable to attend in person. https://view.oneroomstreaming.com/index.php?data=MTczNDAzMjkyOTM0MTA0NiZvbmVyb29tLWFkbWluJmNvcHlfbGluaw==

Flowers may be delivered to Thomas Poteet & Son Funeral Directors, 214 Davis Rd., Augusta, GA 30907 (706) 364-8484. 

Memorial contributions may be made to Georgia Hospice Care at https://carnationfoundation.org/employee-fund/