Linda Louise May Weeks

Linda Louise May Weeks, a devoted missionary and beloved nurturer, passed away peacefully on Tuesday, June 3rd, 2025, in Lexington, NC, just shy of her 78th birthday. Born on Tuesday, July 1st, 1947, in Franklin County, North Carolina, to Norman Leonard May and Beatrice Mable Jackson May, Linda lived a life rooted in faith, compassion, and service.

Linda dedicated over 25 years to missionary work, transforming the lives of those she served in prisons, juvenile detention centers, those homebound, rescue missions, family and those in orphanages. Her work as a missionary was not just a vocation, but a profound calling. She was involved in many mission projects from the beginning to their fruition and saw all of the positive effects generated by those projects. Linda's tireless dedication along with her husband, Ronald Clinton Weeks, whom she met while both of them were missionaries to an orphanage in Oxford, North Carolina, and their natural ability to love and care for others earned them both the affectionate title of "Ma and Pa Weeks.” Ronald, her husband, published a book during their ministry as missionaries entitled, "Ma and Pa Weeks Take a Trip." Linda's gentle spirit, encouraging words, and passionate influence created a loving home wherever she served. She became a mother figure to more than 900 individuals, who regarded her as the mother they never had or never knew, but forever their mother in Christ. Linda remained in contact over the years with as many of those people as she could. Missionary service carried her all over the United States working with people from every walk of life imaginable and with no regard to good or bad circumstances, Linda loved them all. She and her husband believed that with Christ involved and at the center of their mission work, anything was possible.

Linda is survived by her husband, Ronald, sons, Curtis Jackson Blanton of Lexington, NC and Robert Bradley Blanton of Charlotte, NC; step-son Phillip Anthony Weeks of Dallas, GA; step-daughter Tiffany Lynn Weeks of Butner, NC; six grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. Linda also leaves behind a legacy of compassion, unwavering faith and boundless generosity in lives and in the hearts of those who were blessed to know her and those she loved as her own. Preceding her in death were her parents, her sister Phyllis Carol Bennett and brother, Norman Earl May and his wife Hazel.

A Celebration of Life service will be held for Linda at 11:00 am on Saturday, June 14, 2025, at the Davidson Funeral Home, Lexington Chapel, where family and friends will gather to honor and celebrate Linda’s remarkable life and the legacy.

If desired, in tribute to her life’s mission, donations can be made to the family of Linda so that they may continue her cherished work in the mission field.

Linda May Weeks will forever be remembered by the lives she touched through the power, love and salvation of Jesus Christ.