Linda Marie Beighley

Linda Marie Beighley was born March 13, 1954, to William and Rose Marie Arndt Hendrickson in Albert Lea. She lived all of her life in Albert Lea, graduating from Albert Lea High School in 1972. On December 8, 1972, Linda was united in marriage to Terry Beighley in Sioux Falls, SD. She was a very talented individual who could transform something very simple into something very unique and beautiful. Linda had a love of animals and was always surrounded by them. She enjoyed the years she worked for SEMCAC and the people she served. Linda and Terry and their family devoted many hours each year planning and setting up the Rendezvous. They enjoyed spending weeks at Bancroft Park demonstrating to the young people the life that was led during this time and doing anything necessary to make the Rendezvous a success. She was an accomplished seamstress and enjoyed helping people transform their plain rooms in their homes to rooms of beauty. Survivors include her husband, Terry; daughter, Jenny Thompson and her husband Mike; grandchildren, Sophie and Walker; parents, Bill and Rose Hendrickson; brother, Mike Hendrickson and his wife Karen and their children, Tyler and Katelyn; mother-in-law, Dorothy Beighley; brothers and sisters-in-law: Elvin Roy Beighley and his wife Nancy, Joanne Hanson, Judy Luksik and her husband Rodger, Dean Beighley and his wife Debra, Jack Beighley and his wife Ruth, Daniel Beighley and his wife Deborah, Wayne Mick Beighley and his wife Jane, Timothy Beighley and his wife Angela, and Pendra Mellum and her husband Bradley; special family friends: Pat and Swanee Swanson, Perry Vining, Margaret Brownstone, and Robin Faith. Linda was preceded in death by her son, Travis, "Beef." In lieu of flowers, memorials are preferred to the "Linda Beighley Memorial Fund" at Security Bank, Albert Lea.