Still Choosing Each Other A 65-Year Love Story and the Founders Who Helped Begin Cedarhurst of Frankfort
Many people do not know how Ed and Linda’s love story began. Linda often says she was not even looking for love. It was almost Christmas. She had come home from college, focused on her future, not romance. Her mother casually mentioned that a friend wanted to introduce her to three young lieutenants. Linda’s immediate response was firm: “Mom, no!” But her mother insisted. One of them, she said, was already on his way to take her to breakfast. Linda remembers asking, “What does he look like?” Just then, there was a knock at the door. She quickly slipped into one of her mother’s outfits, touched up her makeup, and agreed to meet him. When she first saw Ed, she had a simple thought: Oh… he is good-looking. She agreed to go. They had breakfast at Howard Johnson’s. It was an ordinary morning that became anything but ordinary. “We soon found there was a beating in our hearts that felt meant to be,” Linda says.
Not long after, Ed told her he wanted her to be his wife. They promised to love one another through sickness, through travel, through every season of life—and to always take care of each other. Sixty- five years later, they are keeping that promise. If asked to describe their marriage in only four words, Linda answers simply: “We always pray together.” Through five children, decades of change, and countless life chapters, faith and family have anchored them. “Our family,” they say, is what they are most proud of. Their children call their 65 years “a blessing to our whole family,” a living example of faith, commitment, love, and fortitude. “I’m proud to be their daughter,” their daughter Jessica shares. “And I’m very lucky that my kids have their grandparents as models of what a committed marriage can look like.” Like all long marriages, theirs has seen change. Linda smiles and says, “Ed always wants to make me laugh.” He is calm and quiet, she is outgoing and talkative, and somehow those differences have always fit perfectly, especially with humor tying it all together. They have learned to do life
30 CEDARHURST SENIOR LIVING | SPRING FLOURISH 2026
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