Linda Jo Floyd
Gettysburg Address Delivered at Gettysburg, Pa. Nov. 19th 1863. “Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. “Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this. “But in a larger sense we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember, what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us,that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion, that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain, that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.”
Linda Jo Floyd, RN, BSN was a nurse for 46 years. Starting her healthcare career as a phlebotomist at Community Hospital East in Indianapolis, IN, she became an Emergency Department secretary with the goal of becoming a nurse. Linda graduated from the Licensed Practical Nurse program at Indiana Vocational Technical College and was licensed by the State of Indiana as an LPN on May 30, 1980. She then returned to Marian College (now university) to complete her Associate Degree in Nursing and was licensed by the State of Indiana as an RN on March 26, 1987. She then completed the Bachelor of Science in Nursing program at Indiana Wesleyan University. For the majority of her career, Linda dedicated her life to helping others as an Emergency Department nurse, attaining her Certified Emergency Nurse designation. The final few years she worked in Women's Health and then Senior Health. Linda died peacefully, surrounded by her beloved husband, Jim; her lifelong nurse colleagues and friends Dony, Linda, and Deb; her brother Steve; and other family and friends. In grade school, Linda had to memorize the Gettysburg Address, and in doing so, fell in love with Abraham Lincoln. Therefore, she visited anything related to President Lincoln and especially loved Gettysburg. Linda was a former member of the Woman's Relief Corps, Eliza E. George Auxiliary to the Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War, and Jenny Wade No. 27, Auxiliary to the Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War. Linda was also a Bronze Lincoln Fellow of the SUVCW Charitable Foundation. Per her request, there was no viewing or service in Indianapolis. A private graveside service was held in Gettysburg, PA. In memory of Linda, please help another person in her memory, or contribute to the Evergreen Cemetery Gatehouse fund, if you can. Linda would frequently give money to those in need or buy groceries or meals for the elderly.
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