News about Linda Hellner Issa

3/22/25. If you remember the Bookmobile that rolled around Ann Arbor when we were kids, you will enjoy hearing that one of our classmates loved driving it, taking books and delight to many of us on weekends. Linda had a passion for learning and, just as much, bringing that to others. 

Books, music, genealogy, and star gazing—not just those in the sky but the ones she came to understand through astrology—were some of the things that were important to her and were ones she shared with friends and her large, closeknit family.

Linda was a baker, known for her homemade sweets, a highlight of family celebrations. Her obituary also tells us that, like many of the rest of us, she “cherished annual trips to the Washtenaw Dairy in Ann Arbor (now owned by another class member, Mary Jean Robb), where she enjoyed family, ice cream and creating lasting memories”.

She was known for having “an incredible gift for conversation—engaging, insightful, and always full of laughter. She never met a stranger, only a friend she hadn’t yet made.” Reading classmates’ obituaries like this one can make us wish we had known them, starting all the way back in high school.

You can view Linda's obituary here.

Linda Hellner Issa