Three words to describe yourself: outgoing, thoughtful, sedentary
Linda Rae was born in San Antonio, Texas and lived there until the age of nine, when her family moved to Germany because her dad was in the army. She went to college at Texas A&I in Kingsfield (now Texas A&M Kingsfield) to major business. During her studies, however, she got sick and had to drop out. Linda Rae returned to school at Southwest Texas State University (now Texas Southern University) and got married in 1971. She worked in the transportation industry in an office for three years. After her husband died in '75, Linda Rae worked at a recycling place "again, in an office," and in '75, she married Tom. They moved to Corpus Christi, Texas where she worked as a secretary for a psychiatrist. Afterwards, Linda Rae went back to school to take enough accounting classes to become a CPA, and she had twins in '81.
Tom was in the National Guard, so the family moved back to San Antonio, and in '86, they moved to New Orleans, Louisiana where Linda Rae worked at a television station until 1993. She comments, "I was in show-business!!...Well as an accountant." She said it was glamorous to travel to New York and Hollywood, staying at the Four Seasons Hotel for budget meetings. Linda Rae also mentions that she was a smoker starting in 1973 until 1993--when she received a newsletter for a non-smoking class at the hospital, took the class, and found it very successful. In 1993, Linda Rae also got fired from her job. She said that a co-worker had unacceptable behavior and was obnoxious, and when she brought this up to her boss, he did not fire him, so she left. Afterwards, Linda Rae got an accounting job with the Louisiana military department. She stressed that "everything you've heard about Louisiana is true." From 1998-2000, she worked for a weekly newspaper as a reporter and typesetter, and when Tom retired from the National Guard, they moved back to San Antonio.
Linda Rae then became a receptionist for Holy Spirit Catholic Church until, 2006, when she was diagnosed with stage one breast cancer.At first, she said her diagnosis didn't bother her and that she stayed very calm. She said, "It took me two months to find out that this sort of thing is supposed to cause me grief." Since her diagnosis and treatment, Linda Rae has been cancer-free for five years, and now she "does good works and plays with friends." She also describes herself as a "voracious reader" reading "trashy fiction, murder mysteries, and thrillers," but avoiding romance novels. She also does volunteer work with a food pantry that also helps people pay for their rent and utilities, which is something her father did. In 2013, her husband, Tom, is going to become a Deacon, so Linda Rae says she has to "learn how to become a Deacon's wife . . . which I think means you sit still and be quiet."
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