Linda Louise Worden

Linda passed away on 3/28/2025 in the Florida Keys of heart failure. Linda is survived by her husband, Richard D Worden, her daughter, Anne-Marie Sweat, her two grandsons Triston and Christopher (Hope) Adams, and two great-grandchildren; Lillian Rose and Bristol Marie Adams, and Wally, their cairn terrier.

She was born Linda Louise Prentice in Fort Meade, Florida, and grew up on Saint Simons Island, Georgia with three siblings, survived by one, John Prentice. She moved to Ann Arbor in the early 70’s with her young daughter, Anne-Marie, and there she met Richard. They were married on March 1, 1975. She has lived on Whitmore Lake for the past 50 years of her life and after retirement from the University of Michigan Hospital Pharmacy, she and Dick moved to the Florida Keys. For the last 25 years they still returned to their home on Whitmore Lake for the summer and to be with family and old friends.

She and Richard just celebrated 50 years of marriage on March 1, 2025

Linda was very creative and absolutely loved the color blue. She had the talent to draw and paint and excelled for many years in her passion of creating jewelry. She, and her sister-in-law Jane, loved creating jewelry. In her younger life, she was a certified scuba diver and underwater photographer for the Virginia Institute of Marine Science, a job she loved. That all fit in perfectly in her and Dick’s life later in the Florida Keys. They both loved the ocean and being on it and in it. She loved to watch all types of series shows on Netflix and often pulled all-nighters on shows that had many seasons. Linda loved to talk to everyone when out shopping, a favorite pastime of hers. She loved meeting people. Her favorite meal, no matter what restaurant she was in, was pork chops and sweet potatoes. It topped the list of everything.

She was a dog lover. Throughout her 50 years of marriage, there wasn’t a single day that there wasn’t a dog or two in the house. Labradors, Scotties, and Cairn Terriers. She became a very excellent dog groomer and showed her dogs a few times in competition. Not professionally, just loved her dogs and for that matter, all animals. Any kind: bugs, fish, birds, lizards, and especially the tiny Key Deer that were in her yard in Big Pine Key, Florida.

To the many friends and professionals that were there during this last chapter, Thank You.

There will be a private scattering of her ashes at some time in the future. No service is planned at this time. Any donation to a church of your choice, in her honor, would make her smile.