Linda Marie Schwebke December 2, 1950 - November 1, 2015 Rancho Bernardo Linda Marie Schwebke slipped away to our Lord's loving arms at 9:10 pm on Sunday, November 1, 2015, at the end of a long battle with cancer. Born in Passaic, NJ, Linda was the second child of Walter Joseph and Loretta Marie Skolic. Her older brother is Walter Joseph Jr. Childhood health issues may have sparked her later career choice in nursing but were the reason for leaving NJ for Phoenix, AZ, to live with her aunt and uncle during her senior year of high school.

Graduating in 1968, she moved to Tucson to attend Arizona State University where she earned a BS in marketing in 1973. After a year in Osorno, Chile, with the Peace Corps, she returned to ASU, finishing nursing school in 1979. Her college years were filled with friends and outdoor activities hiking, skiing and horseback riding which became a lifelong passion. Leaving Tucson for California, she worked as a RN at hospitals in San Diego and Escondido. A back injury earned helping a falling patient put her on disability for several years and haunted her for the rest of her life.

In 1983 Linda moved to Ketchikan, Alaska, with husband, Dwight Schwebke, where their first son, Cody, was born in 1984. After moving to Juneau in 1986, son, Daniel, soon followed in 1987. For 16 years Linda found rewarding work in Southeast Alaskan native clinics as a triage nurse and infection control educator. The family returned to Southern California in 1999, where Linda worked in Rancho Bernardo at Examinetics and later in the infection control department at Tri-City Hospital. She worked there until her diagnosis of cancer in 2008. Most important in her life was her family, especially her two grandkids, though she also loved horseback riding and tending her backyard garden. Linda enjoyed murder mysteries, western dancing and travel, having taken trips to Japan, Taiwan, the UK and France. She was planning a family vacation to Hawaii when she passed away.

Linda is survived by her husband, Dwight; sons, Cody and Daniel; grandchildren, Harvey and Olivia; and brother, Walter of Tucson, AZ. Please sign the guest book online at legacy.com/obituaries/ pomeradonews .

Published in the Pomerado News on Dec. 17, 2015