Luman, Linda Diane Atkins
   	
You are invited to celebrate the homegoing of Linda 
Luman at 1 p.m. Tuesday, January 16, 2007, at Little 
Flock Baptist Church with the Rev. Ted White and the 
Rev Leon Veazey officiating. Services are under the 
direction of Welch Funeral Home. God took his angel 
home Friday, January 12, 2007. Linda was born in Lake 
Village, Arkansas, November 28, 1956. She moved to 
Longview in 1975 and was a member of Little Flock 
Baptist Church. She also loved to garden. Linda is 
survived by her husband, Larry Luman; her daughter 
and son-in-law, Melissa and Rodney Bechtold; grandson 
and granddaughter, Zachary and Zoey Bechtold; mother 
and stepfather, Tommie and Earl Harris; father and 
stepmother, Odis and Polly Atkins; sister, Sandra Hale; 
and brothers, Wayne and Glen Atkins, George Robert 
Hardin, Michael and Marvin Ritter, and John C. Taylor. 
Visitation will be 6 p.m., Monday, January 15, 2007, at 
Welch Funeral Home. Memorials may be made to Heart'sWay 
Hospice of North East Texas, 1306 Pine Tree Rd., Longview, 
TX 75604; The Longview Cancer Center, 1300 N. 4th St., 
Longview, TX 75601; or Little Flock Baptist Church, 14206 
FM 968, Longview, TX 75602. An online registry may be 
signed at www.news-journal.com, by clicking on the 
obituaries link.

Published in the Longview News-Journal on 1/14/2007.

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Luman, Linda Diane Atkins   
	
Services for Linda Luman will be 1 p.m. Tuesday, January 16, 
2007, at Little Flock Baptist Church with the Rev. Ted White 
and the Rev. Leon Veazey officiating. Arrangements are by 
Welch Funeral Home. Mrs. Luman died January 12, 2007. Born 
November 28, 1956, in Lake Village, Ark., she moved to 
Longview in 1975, was a member of Little Flock Baptist Church 
and loved to garden. Survivors include her husband, Larry 
Luman; daughter, Melissa Bechtold; mother, Tommie Harris; 
father, Odis Atkins; sister, Sandra Hale; and brothers, Wayne 
and Glen Atkins, George Robert Hardin, Michael and Marvin 
Ritter, and John C. Taylor. Visitation will be 6 p.m., today, 
January 15, 2007, at the funeral home. An online registry may 
be signed at www.news-journal.com, by clicking on the 
obituaries link.

Published in the Longview News-Journal on 1/15/2007.