Her husband Patrick was at her side, as was her kind caregiver, Sera.
Linda was born in Detroit, Michigan. She graduated from Mumford High in Detroit in 1966, then went on to Eastern Michigan University in Ypsilanti, MI, and earned her B.A. in Philosophy. Linda then enrolled in graduate school at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. It was there she was awarded, Cum Laude, her Masters of Social Work degree.
After practicing Social Work in Michigan for a while she drove to California, settling in Santa Rosa. Lane Ranch in West Sonoma County was a work stop for her. Linda left the Social Work field and took a job at Jeremiah's Restaurant. While waitressing there, she made some of her best "long-time-to-this-day" friends.
On a casual lunch
date in Sonoma, mutual friends introduced Linda to her future husband,
Patrick, on an early summer afternoon at Marioni's Restaurant. As Linda
& Patrick fell in love, Linda also fell in love with Patrick's son
Tad. Linda & Patrick were married on December 27, 1982. They moved
into their longtime home the next summer where she played an important
role in raising Tad.
Linda waitressed at Marioni's Restaurant
for approximately 10 years, making many friends and firmly establishing
herself in the Sonoma community, and hosted some amazing parties!
In
1992 Linda helped open and operate "Uncle Patty's Bar and Grill" in
downtown Boyes Hot Springs. Over the next 10 years, she did some epic
entertaining.
After they sold the restaurant in 2002, Linda
decided a change was in order. She has always loved children, so she
went back to school and got her Early Childhood Education Certificate.
With that in hand she went on to teach at Old Adobe School on W. Spain in Sonoma for 10 plus years, until her retirement in 2015.
"Teacher
Linda" just loved her young students, and worked tirelessly to provide
them with joyful instruction, engaging projects, originals songs and
poems and stories to help them remember their lessons. And of course
they each got their "yearbook" at the end of each school year. Linda loved her dear friends, family, and life here in Sonoma!
Linda
was preceded in death by her beloved parents, Anita and Martin Figlen,
her brother, Robert, and her father and mother-in-law, Ted and Cedora
Scheiblich.
Linda is survived by: Her husband of 40 plus
years Patrick Scheiblich, her sister Karyn Figlen Schorr, her niece Lexi
Schorr, her son Tad and his wife Sarah and our grandchildren Eddie and
Adelyn Scheiblich, her cousins Laurie and Dr Jerry Rosenthal, and cousin
Richard Shcolnek, her "may-as-well-be sister" Jenny Golaub, and of
course all her in-laws, sister Melania, brothers Jon, Marc, and the
numerous nieces and nephews she doted on in the Scheiblich, Mahoney, and
Dailey families!
Linda's family wishes to thank Hired Hands
Inc. Homecare, By the Bay Health Hospice Care, The Center for Spiritual
Living in Santa Rosa, Laura (we couldn't have done it without you), and
the many, many, dear friends who have all helped with loving kindness
and support.
In lieu of flowers perhaps consider a donation to
By the Bay Health Hospice Care, the Center for Spiritual Living in Santa
Rosa, or the Alzheimer's Association.
A
memorial service will be held on Thurs, August 17, 2023, at 11 a.m., at
Duggan's Mission Chapel, 525 W. Napa St., Sonoma. A Celebration of Life
will follow the service at The Swiss Hotel.
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