Linda Maureen (Lee) Rice, of Mendota Heights, Minnesota, passed on April 1, 2025, after a brief hospitalization. Linda was born in Wimbledon, North Dakota on November 14, 1941, the third of four children born to Ingvald and Helen (Solberg) Lee. She attended South St. Paul High School in Minnesota and enjoyed participating in theater productions and campus organizations. She was crowned Miss South St. Paul in 1959 and was a runner-up in the Miss Minnesota pageant.

While attending Luther College in Decorah, Iowa, Linda met and married Norman, a fellow cast member in a production of Anastasia. They moved to suburban Chicago
where they both worked as actors, which eventually led them to California in 1975 with their four children in tow. Linda always had many projects going at once, and though
she continued her work as an actress, she was more proud of her work with the Girl Scouts, leading troops for her three daughters and organizing the annual cookie drive
as a chairperson for the San Fernando Valley Girl Scout Council. For several years she also enjoyed work as a literary agent, but her focus was always on her family.
In 1987, Linda and Norman moved to Orlando, Florida for Norman’s work. There, she volunteered with CITE (now Lighthouse Central Florida) and taught Sunday School to
high school students. She and Norman both loved to golf, and Linda has a hole-in-one at Bay Hill Country Club to her credit.

After Norman retired in 1997, they moved to Mesa, Arizona and put their considerable skills to use volunteering with Laborers for Christ. After several years, they moved again to Ray, North Dakota where Norm and Linda built a beautiful retirement home at Paradise Point, a small golfing community on Lake Sakakawea. They enjoyed many
memorable visits from friends, family, children, and grandchildren. After Norman passed away in 2009, Linda moved back to St. Paul, Minnesota to be closer to her extended family. She loved keeping up with her fifteen nieces and nephews and her many, many cousins. Wherever she and Norman lived, Linda ensured their home was a magnet for family. Linda was very affectionately known as Grandma Moe to her six grandchildren and great-grandson. Her two oldest daughters both moved to be with her in her final years. There was ‘never a dull moment’ in Linda’s life, and she approached everything with enthusiasm and commitment. She was a beacon of kindness for those who knew her, and her passing will be deeply mourned by her loving family and friends.

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