Linda RaNaye (Savoy) Schultz, 58, of Coralville, Iowa and formerly of Nicollet, died peacefully on Sunday, March 18, 2007, at her home surrounded by her family.

Memorial services to celebrate Linda’s life will be at 11 a.m. Saturday at the Minnesota Valley Funeral Home in New Ulm with internment in the New Ulm City Cemetery. The Rev. Joyce Tollefson-Capp will officiate. The family will greet friends and relatives from 4 to 7 p.m. on Friday at the Minnesota Valley Funeral Home in New Ulm. In lieu of flowers the family prefers memorials to Breast Cancer Research at the Holden Comprehensive Center of Iowa City, Iowa or to the Iowa City Hospice Program.

Linda RaNaye Savoy, the daughter of Felton and Pearl (Westphal) Savoy was born on Oct. 17, 1948, in St. Peter. At an early age Linda moved with her family to Nicollet where she attended Nicollet Public Schools, graduating in the class of 1966. After her high school graduation Linda’s goal was to become a nurse. She enrolled in the New Ulm School of Practical Nursing affiliated with the Union Hospital in New Ulm. She graduated as an LPN in 1968 and obtained a job as an LPN at Immanuel Hospital in Mankato. While there, she met Rodney Schultz.

That relationship developed and they were united in marriage on Sept. 5, 1970, at Trinity Lutheran Church in St. Peter. After marriage, Linda and Rod continued to work at the hospital in Mankato until 1973 at which time they moved to Iowa City, Iowa. Linda furthered her education at the University of Iowa receiving her BSN degree in 1987 from the University of Iowa College of Nursing. Since 1987, and just up to a few weeks ago, Linda worked as a registered nurse in the operating room at the UIHC in Iowa City, specializing in orthopedic surgery.

Linda was a member of Our Redeemer Lutheran Church in Iowa City. She was a great mother, grandmother, and cherished her family and friends. For the past 12 years she was a wonderful and faithful caregiver to her husband, Rod.

Linda is survived by her husband, Rodney, a resident of the Iowa Veteran’s Home in Marshalltown, Iowa, a son and daughter-in-law, Timothy Peter and Amanda Schultz of Cleveland, Ohio; a son Thomas Alan Schultz of Iowa City, Iowa; a grandson, Brady Schultz; her mother, Pearl Savoy of New Ulm, brothers and sisters-in-law, Bruce and Linda Savoy of New Ulm, Ralph and Yvonne Savoy of Cedar Rapids, Iowa; and by nieces and nephews, Chad, Amber, Caitie, Brittney, Andrew, Jennifer, and Reis.

She was preceded in death by her father, Felton Savoy, and her in-laws, Peter and Beatrice Schultz.