Linda Nottestad

Linda's husband, Ken, is a bilateral lung transplant recipient. Linda and Ken recently celebrated the seven-year anniversary of the gift of new lungs.

She retired in 2004 after a 30-year career at Webster University. She was associate vice president for academic affairs, and traveled frequently to Webster's extended campuses around the United States.

Linda and Ken have six children and twelve grandchildren. Two children are in St. Louis, three in Texas, and one in Nebraska. Email pictures and telephone calls keep everyone updated.

Linda's hobbies include volunteerism, gardening, working crossword puzzles, genealogy, and traveling the world. She just returned from a two-week trip to Rome, Brussels, and Paris with her two oldest granddaughters. In July she is headed to Toronto, Quebec, and coastal Maine. While in Quebec she hopes to have an opportunity to do some genealogy research on her French family that immigrated to Sainte Genevieve, Missouri.