Doug and I met Linda when she and Kent began dating. We loved her right away and the two of us girls clicked as friends. Getting together with Kent and Linda was always some kind of fun adventure that included….boating in Marion, Il (where our husbands stranded us on the beach for a couple hours) or attending our husband’s class reunions, or skiing in sub zero weather, or biking in WI (for all of a few miles), or swimming with our kids in the frigid lake waters of MN, or driving from Miami to Key West. Wherever we were our time together was filled with laughter and fond memories were made.
I will remember Linda as the perfect hostess with the mostest. She made you feel welcome….like family! She was a great cook and I always came away with a recipe. I loved her laugh, her smile, her funny stories, her outlook on motherhood and her adventurous nature.
I will miss so very many things about Linda, but mostly, I will miss just being around her.
Linda did not just exist in her life, she made life happen…and luckily, we got to experience some of it with her.
Fly high my dear friend.