A memorial service for Dr. Linda Flowers will be held in the Leon Russell Chapel, on NCWC's Rocky Mount campus, on Friday, February 4 at 2:15 PM. Classes meeting at that time will be cancelled so that everyone may attend.

Dr. Flowers passed away on January 21 after a continuing illness.  Her funeral was held in Faison, NC on January 23.

She was an active member of the campus community for many years, continuing through the Fall of 1999.  She was Professor of English, and had been Jefferson-Pilot Professor, Director of the Visiting Writers Series, Department Chair, Director of the 1990 Self Study, and filled many other roles.

Dr Flowers was the author of an acclaimed book, Throwed away: failures of progress in Eastern North Carolina. More recently she wrote an essay, "I have come home," based on diaries of her illness, which was published in the NC Crossroads (newsletter of the NC Humanities Council).