Linda Ann Turner

Linda Ann Turner, 78, passed away after a long battle with Alzheimer’s on July 6, 2026 in Winchester, Kansas with her oldest daughter at her side. 

Linda was born on September 11,1947 in Fresno, California to John Lee and Irene Pearlie Bussey and spent many of her formative childhood years growing up in Texas. 

She married Thomas Brower in 1966, and they had 6 children together. She married Roger Turner in 1985, and they had 2 children together.

Linda was preceded in death by her parents, brothers John Bussey, Derrell Bussey, and Danny Joe Bussey, sisters Shirley Bussey, Charlotte Blackburn, Mina (Tiney) Owens, Sonja Cooper, and Marsha Duckett, sons Joshua Turner and Robert Brower, stepdaughters Christine Johnson and Theresa Turner, and grandson Marcus Brower. 

She is survived by her brother Darvin Bussey and sister Patricia Arnold, daughters Clarissa Cope, Jeanie Payne and Renea Clark, sons Jeffrey Brower, Gerald Brower and Thomas Brower, stepsons Daniel Turner and Chris Turner, stepdaughter Roxann Reed, 25 grandchildren, 11 great grandchildren, many step grandchildren, numerous nephews and nieces, and countless other bonus kids that called her mom or grandma.

Linda worked hard all of her life. She was an entrepreneur, opening her own upholstery shop and several stores over the years that sold appliances and furniture. When she retired from that, she ran a USDA dog kennel. She was never afraid to try something new and always found a way to fix up items that others would discard. She was known to refinish your tabletop if it got scuffed up, recover a chair or couch to make it beautiful again and she even reupholstered the interior of an old Candy Apple Red Mercury that was “rescued” from a field. She sewed matching outfits for her children and baby quilts anytime a new baby was born. She cooked everything from scratch and fed anyone that walked through her door. She never met a fruit, vegetable or meat that she couldn’t can.

To Linda though, her most important job was being the best mom she could be. She once said, when you get to the end of your life, the only thing that will matter to you is how you raised your kids. Linda left a legacy of love in the large family she grew, 44 direct descendants and counting. Generations of our family cooks know how to make homemade biscuits, roasts of any kind, and chili beans and cornbread because of her. Children and grandchildren have fond memories of sitting around her table eating large country breakfasts, baking fruit cobblers and cookies, having spontaneous dance parties, and listening to Linda play her guitar and sing old folk and country songs around a campfire. They are carrying on those traditions with their own children and grandchildren and a little bit of her will always be there with them when they do.