Linda Gail Escalante, 67 of Greenville, passed away on May 7, 2015 at the Hunt Regional Medical Center. Funeral services will be held on Monday at 2:00 p.m. at the chapel of Coker-Mathews Funeral Home with Rev. Roger Ratliff and Rev. Augie Gomez officiating. Burial will follow at Celeste Cemetery. Visitation will be Sunday from 6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m. at the funeral home.
Linda was born in Greenville, Texas on March 9, 1948 to Jack Hutcheson and Hazel Compton Hutcheson. She married Johnny Escalante on September 23, 1966 in Greenville. She worked as a homemaker and was a member of Park St. Baptist Church.
Linda is survived by her husband of Greenville; daughters, Teresa Guzman and husband, Ray of Greenville, Christina Tull and husband, Michael of Caddo Mills, Dianna Gomez and husband, Andrew of Greenville, Johna Escalante and Jared Fitzgearld, Sr. of Greenville; step-mother, Sybil Hutcheson of Lubbock; step-sisters, Wanda Brewer of Ft. Worth, Linda Brown of Lubbock, Janis Bailey of Ft. Lauderdale, FL, Judy Justus of Ruidoso, NM, Linda Rutherford of Weatherford;
step-brother, Mike Rackley of Greenville; grandchildren, John Willis, Bryan Willis, Maleah Singleton, Bobbi Stogner, Raechelle Henson, Amanda Willis, Arica Valenzuela, Sarah Gomez, Alysia Gomez, Monica Gomez, Jared Fitzgearld, Jr., Jade Fitzgearld; and 14 great-grandchildren.
She is preceded in death by parents; step-father, Dutch Rackley; sister, Jackie Priest; and step-brother, William Rackley.
Pallbearers will be Ray Guzman, Michael Tull, Andrew Gomez, Jared Fitzgearld, Sr., Jared Fitzgearld, Jr., Scott Smith, Bryan Willis and John Willis.