Wednesday, December 27, 2017
My heart goes out to Ken, Corey and Jesse on losing their wonderful wife and Mother.
Linda was indeed a sweetheart, which many have described her as.
May you continue to talk about her and your memories throughout the year and beyond,to help soften the pain of losing her.
In my eulogy at the church, I left out two things I wanted to say about our life as sisters growing up together. One is the good memories I have of the hours and hours we spent with our Mom, Betty, sewing on our 2 sewing machines in the kitchen. We'd use the kitchen table to lay out the fabric, pin the patterns, baste and irone the seams, and took turns on the machines. We were like our own little sewing factory, making our dresses and blouses and sometimes Mom made things for our Dad and Jay, our brother. Every Christmas Mom had secretly made an outfit for each of us that was wrapped in a box under the tree. Linda carried on that sewing legacy by creating halloween costumes for Corey and Jesse.
The other memory and tribute to Linda was how she became editor of our High School newspaper "The Nazarene" and because of her needing a Sports page editor, I,knowing nothing about sports, became that editor. I learned about reporting, layout, fonts, headlines etc and enjoyed being in "The Nazarene" production room with my sister. So besides playing horse, dancing the jitter-bug and doing home chores, she was a big influence on my developing life growing up. Thank you again Linda for your spark and energy. Love you always, your little sister Margaret
