Samuel Luther "Sam" Lindsay, Jr. was born in Marshall, Texas on October 27, 1923 to Samuel Luther Lindsay, Sr. and Beulah Izorah Williams Lindsay. He graduated from Marshall High School with the Class of 1941. After graduation Sam joined the U.S.Army Air Corps, where he served in the European Theatre. Following the war he married Betty Roderfer on February 15, 1946, celebrating 67 years of marriage, before his death on December 31, 2013. Sam was a member of Cumberland Presbyterian Church, where he was an Elder, Cook, and Chief Bottle Washer. He worked as a Construction Foreman for Southwestern Bell Telephone, retiring in 1996, after 40 years of service. He was the former president of the Telephone Pioneers. Sam was a lifetime Marshall Maverick. Survivors are his wife of 67 years, Betty Lindsay of Marshall; two sons, Samuel L. "Buster" Lindsay, III of Marshall, and Rev. John V. Lindsay of Denton; two grandsons, John Mark Lindsay and wife Cassidy in Germany, and Jay Lindsay of Denton; brother, Walter Lindsay and wife Carolyn of Tyler; and sister, Texie Lindsay Morris of St. Louis, MO; the Lindsay clan, many friends and Church Family.