With one last breath, she left this Earth at 7:24 pm on Friday, 12 June 2026.
Linda Lois Blackburn, born 9 May 1949 in Boone, North Carolina, went home.

A lifelong resident of Boone, Ms. Blackburn attended Poplar Grove Baptist Church and Boone Baptist. For almost 20 years, she was employed at TRW, where she held multiple positions, concluding in the Accounting Department. Following the buyout of TRW by IRC, she was able to retire and begin her second career as Deputy Tax Collector for Watauga County, which lasted 28 years. At the tax office, she was in her element, being social and assisting the public. So many friendships were made and maintained during this time. There was hardly a place she could go without someone saying hello. With retirement, Ms. Blackburn moved to the Foley Center, where yet again, "Ms. Social" was reborn among other residents and staff.

Keeping her memory alive are her daughter, Karen Blackburn of Boone, and her beloved grandson, Clay Campbell of Fort Mill, South Carolina. She was preceded in death by her parents, Earl and Eula Blackburn, and siblings William (Bill), Eugene (Gene), Betty, David, and Peggy. Surviving along with Karen and Clay, her sister Mary (John) Pendill of Manteo, North Carolina, and brother Roy (Margaret) Blackburn of Boone. Many special nieces and nephews held places in her heart, along with a myriad of others she adopted as children/family along the way.

A celebration of life will be held 2:00 PM Saturday, July 25, 2026, at Hampton Funeral Home Chapel.

The family will receive friends from 1:00 until 2:00, prior to the service.

The family respectfully request no flowers and any donation to be made to Mecklenburg County Young Marines 8600 Hayden's Way
Concord NC 28025.

Online condolences may be sent to the family at www.hamptonfuneralnc.com

Hampton Funeral and Cremation Service in charge of the arrangements.