ROANOKE TIMES 
                      Copyright (c) 1997, Roanoke Times

DATE: Tuesday, April 8, 1997                 TAG: 9704080072
SECTION: CURRENT                  PAGE: NRV-8 EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY 
DATELINE: BLACKSBURG

VICTIM IN SCHOOL-BUS WRECK DIED A MILE FROM HOME BLACKSBURG WOMAN WAS ACTIVE IN HORSE COMMUNITY.

A Blacksburg woman who died in a head-on collision with a school bus Friday was well known in the area equestrian community.

Linette Schug, known to her friends as "Lin," was leaving her horse farm on Bishop Road when she rounded a turn and hit a Montgomery County school bus head-on. Schug, whose car was in the wrong lane, according to state police, died at the scene. She was about a mile from home, according to neighbor and friend, Del Dyer.

Dyer said the 59-year-old had an obvious love for horses and enjoyed trail riding and hunt clubs with her husband, John.

Schug and Dyer's children grew up attending the same 4-H Horse Club. Dyer said Schug was instrumental in reinvigorating the club after it died out in the late '60s. She also began and helped lead the Foxtails Pony Club in Blacksburg, he said.

Besides being a member of the Rockbridge Hunt Club, Schug was the past president of the Blacksburg Saddle Club.

"I've known her about 20 years," Dyer said. "She was a giving person in her willingness to teach others about horses."

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