Linda Regina Chase

Linda Regina Chase, seventy-three, of Fairfax Station, Virginia, passed away on November fifth, twenty twenty-six. She was born in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, daughter of Robert Baur and Regina Dorkin Baur.

Linda was vice president of her senior class and homecoming queen in nineteen seventy-one at Central Catholic High School in Kingston, Pennsylvania. She was also the last Miss United Way of the Wyoming Valley. She graduated from Luzerne Community College.

In nineteen seventy-eight she married her high school sweetheart, Charles, and moved to Virginia. When she first arrived in the Washington area, she worked as a legal secretary for Patton Boggs, for partner Middleton Martin. After her daughter Cara was born, Linda followed Charles overseas with the U.S. Department of State, working part-time at several embassies and embassy associations. She served in Muscat, Oman, at the U.S. Embassy, and volunteered aboard U.S. Navy ships visiting port, where her warmth won the hearts of many service members and their families stationed overseas. She also hosted countless dinners for the Embassy Marines.

Upon returning from Oman, Linda began a thirty-year career with Kearney Company, founded by a high school friend whom she embraced as family.

Linda had quite a lot of hobbies but her main hobby was her Jazzercise and as you know Linda she loved to dance.

Linda’s greatest joy was her family. She loved holidays and always looked forward to weekends when everyone could be together. Every day was a gift to her when she was with her grandchildren, and she poured herself into making each one of them happy, and all of us too.

Linda is preceded in death by her parents, Bob and Jean Baur. She is survived by her husband Charles, her daughter Cara and son-in-law Olver, her brother Robert and his wife Paula of Dallas, Pennsylvania, and her grandchildren.