Linda Louise Andrade, age 66, passed away on July 6th, 2019 at her home in Gresham, Oregon. She was born to the late Bob Howe and Barbara Brown on May 7, 1953, in Bend, Oregon.
Linda went to Roosevelt High School and after graduation, took some college courses while working at Standard Insurance before getting married and settling down as a homemaker living in Portland and later Gresham, where she excelled at turning any living space into a safe, warm, & wonderful home. She loved crafts, including crochet work, sewing, & papercraft. Linda often had her nose in a book, devouring hard-boiled detective novels, horror, romance, and fantasy novels. She was also a geneology enthusiast, having tracked down and archived numerous branches of the family tree dating back to the 1800s.
She is survived by her husband Wenceslao, her two sons, Lorenzo & David, and two cats, Banchee and Ricky.