This is to inform you that Linda Malear will not be attending your high school reunion, due to being deceased. She was 55 years old, had 9 children and 3 grandchildren. She loved her family and friends and past away Oct. 20, 2003.
7th grade. Having been plucked from all my friends in La Puente and dropped into the desert wasn't what I wanted. My parents did not ask me, however.
Soon, though, many new friends eased me into the best 6 years a boy could ask for. Linda was at my first party, spin the bottle etc. Probably one of those Karen Kinstle 7 minutes in heaven get togethers as well.
Mike Clark, Mike Gee, Bill Griffith, Rich Phillips are gone. As is Linda.
A carnival at Monroe. . .making out with 3 girls behind the curtains (separately of course). Linda was a sweetheart, and we remained easy around each other even as Burroughs sent us in opposite directions.
Monroe kids had a great mileu---Tiny+Regis, Sophie's w/ Perfidia on the juke. An adult couple chaperoned us for cotillion. We learned to fox trot---then we were rewarded by being allowed to do the Twist.
Y.E.S.--Youth Employment Service. We bussed to Burbank and danced our new dances on Dick Clark Bandstand, recording 3 episodes on one Saturday!
Years later Linda contacted my brother in Ridgecrest to find me, but I was long gone, probably dancing at the VFW in Arcata to the strains of Carvel Bass and Judy McGinnis folk/pop music.
A lot of us lived in some pretty awful houses in Ridgecrest but what I remember about Linda's was the cement step at the back door, where we kissed, a long time, the last time.
I was Linda's neighbor. Her dad owned the Shell gas station just outside the base gate. He also owned and flew a plane. I never saw it but he, Linda's mom and my parents flew to Vegas one time.
Evelyn Evans
This was from the Malear family:
This is to inform you that Linda Malear will not be attending your high school reunion, due to being deceased. She was 55 years old, had 9 children and 3 grandchildren. She loved her family and friends and past away Oct. 20, 2003.
John Guth
7th grade. Having been plucked from all my friends in La Puente and dropped into the desert wasn't what I wanted. My parents did not ask me, however.
Soon, though, many new friends eased me into the best 6 years a boy could ask for. Linda was at my first party, spin the bottle etc. Probably one of those Karen Kinstle 7 minutes in heaven get togethers as well.
Mike Clark, Mike Gee, Bill Griffith, Rich Phillips are gone. As is Linda.
A carnival at Monroe. . .making out with 3 girls behind the curtains (separately of course). Linda was a sweetheart, and we remained easy around each other even as Burroughs sent us in opposite directions.
Monroe kids had a great mileu---Tiny+Regis, Sophie's w/ Perfidia on the juke. An adult couple chaperoned us for cotillion. We learned to fox trot---then we were rewarded by being allowed to do the Twist.
Y.E.S.--Youth Employment Service. We bussed to Burbank and danced our new dances on Dick Clark Bandstand, recording 3 episodes on one Saturday!
Years later Linda contacted my brother in Ridgecrest to find me, but I was long gone, probably dancing at the VFW in Arcata to the strains of Carvel Bass and Judy McGinnis folk/pop music.
A lot of us lived in some pretty awful houses in Ridgecrest but what I remember about Linda's was the cement step at the back door, where we kissed, a long time, the last time.
Doyle Claxton
I was Linda's neighbor. Her dad owned the Shell gas station just outside the base gate. He also owned and flew a plane. I never saw it but he, Linda's mom and my parents flew to Vegas one time.