Pauline Smith Linville was born June 14, 1934 in Marshall, Texas to Frank Allen Smith and Marie Bullock Smith. She graduated from Marshall High School , and worked for Marshall News Messenger, Blue Buckel, Lewis Engineering and later retiring from Wal-Mart.  She was an artist and loved to paint, she loved music, riding horses, her dogs and her cats.  Her most important hobby was her family, she was definitely the caregiver of the family.  She married Donald K. Linville, and celebrated 65 years of marriage with him before his death in 2015.

She is survived by her son, Donald Allen Linville, and daughter-in-law, Betty Linville; her daughter Christy Linville-Echols, and son-in-law, Canton Echols; grandchildren, Carey and Jason Linville, Misty Kale, Christopher Linville, Sabine and Rayden Spradlin; numerous great grandchildren, nieces and nephews; sister, Dian Clark-Allen; brother, Frank Smith, Jr. and wife, Jane Smith, and brother Irving "Buster" Smith and wife, Betty Smith.

She was preceded in death by her mother, Marie Smith Patterson; her father, Frank Smith; her husband, Donald K. Linville; son, Phillip Lyn Linville; daughter, Karen Linville; grandson, Dennis Kale, and son-in-law, "Bubba" Spradlin.

Funeral services will be at 10 a.m., Tuesday, July 18, 2017 in the chapel of Downs Funeral Home with a visitation from 9-10 a.m., preceding the service. Interment will follow the service at Colonial Gardens Cemetery.

Pallbearers will be Canton Echols, Randy Brasher, Cody Scott, John Coleman, Rocky Kuykendall, John Riley Coleman, and Christopher Linville.

Honorary Pallbeares are her grandsons, Jason Linville and Kieran and Kierden.