Linda Louise Goodroad, age 51, was born in Minneapolis, MN on April 23, 1965 to Lee and Dana Jackson of Fridley. She passed on to our Savior on January 27, 2017 after bravely fighting breast cancer for 16 years.
In the summer of 1974 the Jackson family moved to Forest Lake, where Linda and her brother and sister grew up on the lake. Linda loved the lake and playing on the water.
Linda graduated from Forest Lake High School in 1983 then attended the University of MN graduating with two degrees. While in college she skied for the U of MN Water Ski Team and continued her love of skiing with the Bald Eagle Water Ski Show until she was first diagnosed with breast cancer in 2000, at the age of 35.
Linda was the proud mother of two beautiful children, Sam Engel (22) and Rachel Engel (21), and wonderful step mom to
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