Mrs. Linda Edwards Murphey, 76, of Oxford, Mississippi, passed away on Monday, April 7, 2025, at Baptist Memorial Hospital – North Mississippi, surrounded by her family. Private services will be held at a later date.
Linda was born on February 16, 1949, in Lexington, Mississippi, to Denton Rosamond Edwards and Maggie Frazier Edwards of West, Mississippi. She grew up in West, and was a 1967 graduate of Durant High School. She was a 1971 graduate of Mississippi State University. In 1973 she received a Master of Education, specializing in reading. Linda taught fifth grade in Kosciusko, Durant, Leflore County, and Pillow Academy in Greenwood, before retiring after a 26 year teaching career. Linda was a member of First Baptist Church in Oxford and a former member of North Greenwood Baptist Church in Greenwood. She and her husband lived in Itta Bena for thirty-four years, before retiring in Oxford to be near their only child, Amy Hardin.
Linda was preceded in death by her parents, and a brother, William Lee Edwards, of Kosciusko, Mississippi.
Linda is survived by her husband of nearly 50 years, Thomas Hardin Murphey; a daughter, Amy Hardin Shirkey, and husband, Jason; and her two precious grandchildren, Michael Hardin Shirkey and Molly Landrum Shirkey, all of Oxford; a twin sister, Brenda Collins of Southaven; a brother J.H. Edwards, and wife, Betty Faye, of Durant; sister-in-law, Maureen Edwards of Kosciusko; nieces, Christy Wiseman and Heather DeShouten; and nephew, Bill Edwards.
Expressions of sympathy or memorial contributions in Linda’s memory mat be made to Regents School of Oxford, 14 County Road 130, Oxford, Mississippi 38655 or online at https://www.regentsschoolofoxford.com/give.
