Linda E. Landon
May 9, 1856-Sept. 29, 1942
Niles Daily Star, Wednesday, September 30, 1942, page 2, col. 4, microfilm Niles District Library
Linda Landon, 86, Dies in Lansing; Service Thursday
Burial rites will be conducted in Silverbrook cemetery Thursday afternoon a 1 for Mrs. Linda E. Landon, 86, native of Niles, who died Tuesday in Lansing. She was former Michigan State college librarian.
Mrs. Landon was born here May 9, 1856, daughter of the late Justice and Jane Carr Vought. She was graduated from Niles high school and taught two years in Kalamazoo. Her marriage to the late R.W. Landon, a real estate dealer, was solemnized in 1877. Mr. Landon died in 1886.
Librarian at Michigan State college from 1891 until her retirement in 1932, Mrs. Landon was popular with students and received the unusual campus tribute of an honorary membership in the Men's Union literary society.
She is survived by one son, Rufus, of Detroit. Another son, Lee, preceded her in death. The body will be brought to Niles after services in the Estes-Leadley funeral home in Lansing Thursday morning at 9.