Bootsey Landrum

Bootsey Taylor Landrum, 94, of Texas City, passed away peacefully on Wednesday evening October 14 at her daughter’s home in League City.

Visitation will be held at 1:00 pm, Saturday, October 24, at Emken-Linton Funeral Home in Texas City. Funeral Services will follow at 2:00 pm.

Bootsey was born February 28, 1926 in Elba, Alabama and grew up in Winter Garden, Florida. She was many things to many people – a Yeoman Third Class in the Women’s Reserve of the U.S. Coast Guard; a graduate of the University of Houston; a business administrator at Union Carbide; Tax Assessor-Collector for Texas City ISD; a daughter, sister, friend, mother, grandmother; skilled maker and seamstress; and lover of wine and chocolate until the very end.

She is preceded in death by her mother, father, and 12 siblings.

Survivors include her children – Hugh Linson Landrum, Jr. and Tracey Landrum Foster – and her grandchildren – Marley and Kinley Foster, and Hugh Linson IV, Evan, and Emma Landrum.