Linda Baize

Linda Baize, 77, of Gatesville, was called home on the afternoon of Jan. 17, 2022.

Funeral services will be 2 p.m. Saturday at Scott’s Funeral Home. Burial will follow in Restland Cemetery. Visitation with the family will be one hour prior to the service.

Linda was born April 6, 1944, in Clifton to Edwin August Massirer and Agnes Leola Gohlke Massirer. She attended school in Crawford and married Burney Bob Baize of Gatesville on Feb. 4, 1961, settling in the Coryell City community to raise their family, farm and ranch.

Linda worked for 32 years at the Texas State School for Boys and later the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, both as a correctional officer and commissary manager. Working for TDCJ took her and Burney to Brazoria where they made several lifelong friends.

Linda and Burney were members of Cedar Ridge Church of Christ in Gatesville.

Linda was a wife, mother, grandmother and great-grandmother. She was loved by so many. She was a woman with several interesting hobbies and was known for her good cooking including bread pudding, cabbage rolls, fried chicken and fried okra.

She was preceded in death by her parents; her sister Betty Jo Massirer; and her younger son, Michael Wayne Baize.

Survivors include her husband of 60 years, Burney Bob Baize; son Terry Lee Baize and wife Mica of Hamilton; brother Van Doren Massirer and wife Mary of Crawford; sister Rebecca Lopez and husband Michael of San Antonio; grandchildren Reed Michael Baize, Brooks Thomas Baize, Truman Walker Baize, Haylie Michelle Danforth, Micala Lea Crownover, McKinley Marie Crownover and Harrison Tyler Baize; and a multitude of great-grandchildren, nieces and nephews.