Linda "Darlene" Sutton, 57, of Columbia passed away on Tuesday, June 24, 2008, at University Hospital.

Services will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday, June 28, at Memorial Funeral Home in Columbia. Burial will follow at Memorial Park Cemetery. Visitation will be from 5 to 8 p.m. Friday at the funeral home.

Darlene was born on April 23, 1951, in Columbia to Lewis H. Sutton Sr. and Alberta Edwards Sutton, and they preceded her in death.

She attended Hickman High School in Columbia and graduated with honors from Moberly Area Junior College in 1985. Darlene retired from the American Archaeology Department at the University of Missouri in 2006. She served for two years as the treasurer on the board at the Boone County Historical Society.

Darlene will be remembered for being a water baby who especially loved sharing her swimming pool with her family and friends.

Survivors include sons Daryl Sexton and wife Mechele of Republic and Shawn Sexton and wife Vicki of Columbia; daughter Stacey Uptegrove and husband Larry of Columbia; grandchildren Philip, Kurtis, Anna, Zachary, Cathryn, Maggie, Dakota, Ben, Madison and Paige; sister Barbara Sutton Baker of Columbia; brother Lewis H. Sutton Jr. and wife Sheila of Fayette; numerous nieces and nephews; and other family members and friends.

She was also preceded in death by her stepfather, Lawrence E. Morton; sister Pat Benzenhoefer-Prailey; twin brothers Ronald Wayne and Donald Dewayne White; stepbrother Gaylord Morton; and brother-in-law Buddy Baker