WELLS- Lynda Faith Wall passed away surrounded in love by her immediate family (son Matthew Wall, daughter-in-law Erica England, and beloved granddaughter Anna Faith England) at Gosnell House Hospice in Scarborough, Maine on the afternoon of March 8, 2021. She was loved and adored by her surviving family and friends, including her niece Carolyn Harris (Kansas City, KS), great-niece Laura Harris-Brooks (Kansas City, KS), sister-in-law Nancy Norman (Nashville, TN), close friends Gail Sztanko (Manassas, VA), Madeline Greer (Greenville, SC), Monika Grotz (Moseley, VA), family in-law Jeff and Michele England (Yarmouth, ME), and Patty and John Gould (Kennesaw, GA). She is predeceased by husband Samual Wall (Retired USAF Colonial), sister Betty-Lou Norman (Greenville, NC), brothers Jerry Norman (Nashville, TN) and Don Norman (Atlanta, GA).
Lynda, or “Lynn” as she preferred to be called, grew up in Mount Airy, NC, graduating from Mount Airy High School and later attending Appalachian State University in Boone, NC where she studied liberal arts. After college, she married her beloved husband Samual Wall (also of Mount Airy, NC) and traveled with him to various tours of duty in the United States Air Force. Their travels took them to Rapid City, SD where her husband served in remote classified duty tending to the Minutemen Missile Program during the Cold War. While in Rapid City, Lynn gave birth to their one and only child Matthew Wall, who is a physician currently practicing in New Hampshire. Lynn has done many interesting things during her lifetime. She used to fly Cesna aircraft over the plains of eastern Wyoming and Western South Dakota for a charter company. While she lived in Shreveport, LA (during her husband Sam’s second duty station in the USAF), she played competitive tennis and introduced the sport to her son Matthew (who played competitively until college). Her husband’s career took Lynn to the Northern Virginia region where he worked at the Pentagon. While there, she sold real-estate and worked as an administrator for Northern Virginia Community College while raising her son Matthew. She was also very active in Trowel Garden Club in Woodbridge, VA where she won countless awards for her flower arranging and love of gardening. Upon the death of her husband in 2018 from complications of a stroke, she moved to South Portland, ME to be closer to her son Matthew and daughter-in-law Erica as well as her beloved and cherished granddaughter Anna Faith England. Anna, who bears Lynn’s middle name “Faith,” meant everything to her until her prolonged hospitalizations and tragic death from complications of COVID-19.
Lynn always had a way of projecting love, light, and warmth to everyone she encountered. She will be dearly missed and loved by all who survive her. To use her words, “After my death I will attend to God’s gardens and flowers for eternity.”
Arrangements have been entrusted to Chad E. Poitras Cremation and Funeral Service, Buxton, www.mainefuneral.com