Linda Marie, the fifth and youngest child of Harry and Verlean Tidwell, was born in Independence, Kansas. After graduating from Independence High School, she attended business school in Kansas City, Missouri. Her education has enabled her to work in several important positions in Tulsa, Oklahoma, including Gulf Oil, which was purchased by AGRICO Chemicals, Miss Jackson’s Department Store, and Alliance Coal. She is the mother of two, Anthony Lee Brown, Jr., and Michael Charles Huffman, and is married to the Rev. Robert Calvert.