Linda Kay Hurtt Smith passed away at her home in Pike County, Mississippi on Saturday, April 6, 2024. She is survived by her husband of fifty-five years, James Daniel Smith, her two children, Jason Daniel Smith (Thuy Phan) and Laura Sumner Smith Pressler, and her five grandchildren, Noah Robert Pressler, Sela Sumner Pressler, Lila Elizabeth Pressler, Jesse Daniel Smith, and Vera Ly Smith. She is also survived by her two sisters, Joan Hurtt Caston and Jean Hurtt Bradley, as well as numerous nieces and one nephew. Funeral services are scheduled for Tuesday, April 9, 2024 at 11 AM at Saint Alphonsus Catholic Church, located in McComb, Mississippi, with burial at Whittington Cemetery, located in Amite County, Mississippi.

Linda was born in Meridian, Mississippi on May 28, 1947, to Samuel Clifford Hurtt and Stella Elizabeth Sumner Hurtt. The family had recently relocated to Enterprise, Mississippi from their home in Greenwood, Kentucky. Linda's father, "Sam" Hurtt was a railroad man, employed by Southern Railroad, where he worked as a dispatcher on the line between Chattanooga and New Orleans. The family later moved to Petal, Mississippi where Linda graduated from Petal High School in 1965. She subsequently attended Jones County Jr. College, The University of Southern Mississippi, and East Carolina University. Linda worked as a radiographer at multiple hospitals for over forty years, retiring from Southwest Mississippi Regional Medical Center in 2004.

Linda was an accomplished genealogist and delighted in researching her deep Kentucky roots. Her ancestors migrated to the Virginia Colony before the American Revolution and crossed the Appalachian Mountains, settling in the Kentucky Territory after the Revolutionary War. Although she never joined any such associations, Linda was, in fact, a daughter of the American Revolution and the great-granddaughter of Union Soldier, Peter P. Sumner, Army of the Ohio, who served his country during the American Civil War. Like many of the ancestral moms she had researched, Linda experienced the anguish and anxiety of sending her son off to war. Linda would fight her own battle with the disease she finally succumbed to, electing to be at home with her family during the last few weeks of her life. She will be sorely missed by those who loved her, and especially by her beautiful grandchildren who will always remember her simply as "Mimi".

The family wishes to express their thanks and gratitude to Compassus Hospice Care and the University of Mississippi Medical Center for their exceptional care and compassion.

Linda's pallbearers are Gary Smith, Duane Smith, Tommy Harvey, Dr. Joe Pressler, Clay Mathis, Noah Robert Pressler, and Jesse Daniel Smith.