Sarah Johnson Linney

A memorial service for Sarah Johnson Linney, 89, of Augusta will be held Sunday, February 12, 2006, at 2 p.m., at the First Baptist Church in Augusta. The family will greet friends prior to the service from 1-2 p.m. in the narthex of the church. She died at Brandon Wilde in Augusta Saturday, February 4, 2006.

Mrs. Linney was a native of Washington and was the daughter of the late Sarah Sims Johnson and William Lloyd Johnson. She was the widow of George Edward Linney. Mrs. Linney grew up in Washington and graduated from Agnes Scott College in Atlanta. All of her life her main interests were her family, her church, travel, and music. She taught piano and Conversational English classes into her eighties.

Survivors include a son, Dr. George Edward Linney Jr., and his wife, Barbara Johnson Linney; a daughter, Dr. Lloyd DuBose Linney, and her husband, Dr. Alton Richard Kindred Jr.; grandchildren, Jonathan Rhame Hinkle and Erin DuBose Davis, and her husband, Daniel, Allison Sims Linney and George Edward Linney III and his wife, Kristen; great-grandchildren, George Edward Linney IV and Kathryn Nevins Linney; and a brother, William Lloyd Johnson Jr.

Memorials may be made to the First Baptist Church in Augusta for World Missions of the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship; or to her alma mater, Agnes Scott College, Decatur.


 Sarah Dubose Johnson Linney was my first cousin, the daughter of W. Lloyd Johnson, Sr., my father’s oldest brother, and Sarah Sims Johnson.  She was born in Washington in 1916 and died at Brandon Wilde in Augusta Saturday, February 4, 2006. She was the widow of George Edward Linney.

    Sarah grew up in Washington and graduated from Agnes Scott College in Atlanta. All of her life her main interests were her family, her church, travel, and music. She taught piano and Conversational English classes into her eighties.

    Survivors include a son, Dr. George Edward Linney, Jr., and his wife, Barbara Johnson Linney; a daughter, Dr. Lloyd DuBose Linney, and her husband, Dr. Alton Richard Kindred, Jr.; grandchildren,  Jonathan Rhame Hinkle and Erin DuBose Davis, and her husband, Daniel,  Allison Sims Linney and George Edward Linney III and his wife, Kristen; great-grandchildren, George Edward Linney IV and Kathryn Nevins Lindsey.

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