Lynda Margaret Horsman

Born September 16, 1949 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, she was the daughter of the late J. Richard Hudson, of Frederick, Maryland, and the late Margaret A. Arthur, of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Lynda grew up in Frederick, Maryland and graduated from Frederick High School in 1968.

She attended the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore, Maryland, and the University of South Carolina, pursuing her art education.

After college, Lynda joined the US Army, serving briefly as a nurse at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, then later worked for her father.

While living in Frederick, she met Wayne, her husband of 44 years, they married and moved to Houston, Texas in February 1981.

They bought their first house, and lived in Texas for five years, where their two sons Chris and Andy were born, in 1983 and 1985 respectively.

When her father fell ill, in 1985 Lynda and the family moved back to Maryland, so the kids could get to know their grandparents.

The following decades were spent raising a family and practicing her many & varied forms of artistic expression.

For many years, she was a supporter of the Maryland Sheep & Wool Festival, serving on committees, doing “Sheep to Shawl”, and helping in any way she could. She was an avid artist, using various media over the years; drawing/painting (oil & others), sculpting, ceramics, glass (hot work, fusing, panels, slumping, sandcarving), paper (Scherenschnitte), wire-wrapping (jewelry), fiber arts (spinning, dyeing, weaving, crocheting, knitting), and finally beading (jewelry) as her heath kept her from the more physically demanding art of glass.

Lynda worked a lot of jobs over the years, from bookkeeping to hearing & vision testing in the Howard County school system, to working in a bead store, and volunteering in the media center at our Elementary school, but raising her children always came first.

Lynda is greatly missed by her husband Wayne, her son Chris (his wife Lindsay) and their three children Max, Penny & Gwen, her son Andrew (his wife Reesy) and their two children Sienna & Asher, along with her best friend Carrie who cared for her & comforted her until the very end, along with her many friends, neighbors, fellow beaders, and teachers that will miss her saying “Merry Christmas” all year long, and her regular encouragement of looking you in the eye & saying “I like you”. She is also survived by her brothers Jim & Marc, and their famillies in Virginia.

Lynda never liked funerals, and she did not want people to be sad, so instead, when the weather is warmer, a “Celebration of Life” will be held in an outdoor venue, so the children can play, food & drink will be shared, and we can tell each other happy stories about Lynda & celebrate her too-brief time with us.