Linda K. Ricker, 73, Clinton, Missouri passed away on Monday, March 4, 2019 at Golden Valley Memorial Hospital, Clinton, Missouri. Fond memories and condolences may be left online at www.vansant-millsfuneralhome.com . Funeral service will be on Thursday, March 7, 2019 at 11am with visitation one hour prior to the service at Vansant-Mills Funeral Home, Clinton, Missouri. Interment will follow at Englewood Cemetery, Clinton. The family suggests memorial contributions be made to the Samaritan Center and may be left in care of the funeral home.

Linda was born on May 2, 1945 in Clinton, Missouri the daughter of Lloyd V and Lona M (Eidson) Ricker. She started her career at Clearfield Cheese, which later became Schreiber Foods. Linda never married, but her sisters' families became her own. She loved all her nieces and nephews and enjoyed spending time with them. Linda doted on them in her own quirky way, adding stickers to their birthday cards just to make them smile. Her love for her family was only surpassed by  her love for the Lord. While a member of Allen Street Baptist Church, she also spent many hours watching and supporting Jimmy Swaggart. She found joy in the small things: Reese's peanut butter cups, frogs and pretty things.

Linda was preceded in death by one brother, Carl Ricker.

Linda is survived by two sisters, Norma (Shelby) Fellhauer and Donna (John) Dalton, as well as many nieces , nephews, and a host of other relatives and friends who will dearly miss her.

She dedicated her life to the Lord when she was a young girl and kept her faith all the days of her life.

Those we love can never be more than a thought apart, for as long as there is memory, they'll live on in the heart. -Mary Alice Ramish

Arrangements have been entrusted to Vansant-Mills Funeral Home, Clinton, Missouri.