Linda Jane Marison

Linda Jane Marison was born Linda Jane Lewis in Bellefontaine, Ohio. Her family was from Kenton and Columbus. They were a typical mid-western family with a German background. Linda's father worked as a chief at Natick Military Lab in Massachusetts. They were a Methodist family. Jane Wentz Lewis was a housewife, involved in the church choir as well as teaching Sunday School.

Linda went to school in Sudbury, Massachusetts. After high school, Linda went to the University of Massachusetts, majoring in French language and graduated as a French teacher. She taught in the middle school in Sudbury, later accepting a position in the Topaz Travel Agency. Two years later she went back to teaching and got a second degree in Spanish. After marrying her husband, Boyden Marison in 1987, she moved to Paris, France and they came back to the USA one year later.

Linda's husband was a journalist, employed by the US Government Radio, Voice of America. Linda accepted a position as a French and Spanish teacher at Georgetown Day School. Her profession involved travels to Latin American countries; Mexico, Cuba, Argentina, Costa Rica, Peru, Columbia, Chile, Guatemala, Honduras, Panama, and Ecuador. She retired in 2019.

In 2002 she and her husband bought a condominium apartment in Gdansk, Poland, in which they spent most summers. They travelled all over Europe as well as several other places; China, Tibet, Australia, New Zealand, Africa - North and South - Middle East, including Israel. Her step daughter, Eva Larsen, and her granddaughter, Linnea Larsen, reside in Denmark. Linda's only brother, Mark, lives in Framingham, Massachusetts. Her parents are buried in Bourne National Cemetery, Old Cape Cod.