Fred Wayne Lindsey II, age 64, passed from this world into the next on March 24, 2025 at the Methodist Hospice Residence in Memphis, Tennessee. He is survived by his spouse, Michael Briggs of the home; one sister, Rhonda Friend of Nashville, North Carolina; one niece, Shannon Dugas of Bentonville, Arkansas; four nephews; one great-niece and one great-great-nephew. Wayne was preceded in death by his parents.
Wayne was born June 26, 1960 to Fred W. “Buddy” and Jenetta Powell Lindsey at the U.S. Naval Hospital in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. A Navy brat, he attended schools throughout the USA until his father retired and moved the family to his parents’ hometown of Hardy, Arkansas. Wayne attended Highland High School and graduated in 1978. He then attended Arkansas State University in Jonesboro, Arkansas earning a Bachelor of Science degree focusing on social studies in 1982 and a Master of Arts degree in history in 1984. He taught social studies at St. Paul Catholic High School in Pocahontas, Arkansas until the school closed in 1989.
He then worked for the Randolph County, Arkansas Department of Human Services and later for the State of Arkansas in the AIDS/STD division headquartered in Crittenden County, Arkansas.
While there, he met his future spouse, Michael Briggs, and they have been together for thirty years. In 1999 they decided to move to Iowa, Michael’s home state, and started careers at the University of Iowa hospitals and clinics, where they worked for twenty-one years. After retiring, they moved back to Memphis in November of 2020 to get away from the Iowa winters.
Public visitation with viewing will be Friday, March 28, 2025 from 3:00 to 5:00 p.m. in the chapel of Tri-County Funeral Home at 1540 Hwy. 62/412 in Highland, Arkansas.
Wayne will be interred at a future date at St. Louis Cemetery #3 in New Orleans, Louisiana.
