Remembering Joseph W. Linden
Oceanside man was one of Fighting Irish's biggest fans
KATHY DAY - For the North County Times | Posted: July 11, 2008
OCEANSIDE -- If Notre Dame's Fighting Irish were on the football field, you could be pretty sure where to find Joseph W. Linden. If he wasn't at the game, he was glued to his television, his daughters said this week.
Linden, who moved to Oceanside 10 years ago, died June 20, 2008, after a battle with Parkinson's disease. He was 86.
Linden grew up in Chicago, where he was born on March 6, 1922. He attended Notre Dame for four years before serving for the next four in the U.S. Navy, so his ties to the university go way back.
But the bond grew that much stronger because Linden's sister, Elise, was married to Ed "Moose" Krause -- who for 31 years was the school's athletic director and was known as Mr. Notre Dame.
Linden was passionate about the school and its football team.
"We didn't dare call him when Notre Dame was playing unless it was halftime," his daughter Peggy Downs said.
Whenever Linden had a chance to attend a game, he'd be there, going to pregame parties and sitting in the team's box as his brother-in-law's guest.
"He'd always call us when he got home and talk about the game," daughter Elizabeth Snider said.
Last year, when he was too ill to attend games, Snider went to see Notre Dame play at Stanford and called him on her cell phone so he could hear the band and sounds from the game.
"Football was a huge piece of his life," she added.
So was Linden's Catholic faith and making sure his children and grandchildren were taken care of, his daughters said.
He also pushed hard to see that his three children graduated from college -- and threw a party for each of them when they did.
Occasionally, Linden would send $20 and words of encouragement to his grandchildren, as his older sisters, Elise and Dorothy, had done for him when he was in college, Snider wrote in her eulogy.
Linden also cared lovingly for his first wife, Helen, who died in 1984 of cancer. At the time they were living in Utah, where Linden worked for Commercial Shearing and Stamping, the company he had served as a plant manager for more than 35 years.
"When Mom got sick, he visited her in the hospital before work, at lunch and after work for a year," Downs said.
During that time, Linden also assumed the family chores and "became the ultimate bargain hunter and consummate comparison shopper," Snider's eulogy said.
Eight years after his wife's death, Linden married Adele Reese. Snider said in the eulogy that "most of us are fortunate to find someone we love once. He fell deeply in love twice."
She noted that in the last few difficult months of their father's life, "Adele was there walking by his side the whole way."
Linden is survived by his wife, Adele; children Peggy Downs, Elizabeth Snider and Joe Jr.; four step-children Bobbie Hicken, Curry Kirkpatrick, Joanne Price and Bill Kirkpatrick; 18 grandchildren and eight great grandchildren.
Oceanside man was one of Fighting Irish's biggest fans
KATHY DAY - For the North County Times | Posted: July 11, 2008
OCEANSIDE -- If Notre Dame's Fighting Irish were on the football field, you could be pretty sure where to find Joseph W. Linden. If he wasn't at the game, he was glued to his television, his daughters said this week.
Linden, who moved to Oceanside 10 years ago, died June 20, 2008, after a battle with Parkinson's disease. He was 86.
Linden grew up in Chicago, where he was born on March 6, 1922. He attended Notre Dame for four years before serving for the next four in the U.S. Navy, so his ties to the university go way back.
But the bond grew that much stronger because Linden's sister, Elise, was married to Ed "Moose" Krause -- who for 31 years was the school's athletic director and was known as Mr. Notre Dame.
Linden was passionate about the school and its football team.
"We didn't dare call him when Notre Dame was playing unless it was halftime," his daughter Peggy Downs said.
Whenever Linden had a chance to attend a game, he'd be there, going to pregame parties and sitting in the team's box as his brother-in-law's guest.
"He'd always call us when he got home and talk about the game," daughter Elizabeth Snider said.
Last year, when he was too ill to attend games, Snider went to see Notre Dame play at Stanford and called him on her cell phone so he could hear the band and sounds from the game.
"Football was a huge piece of his life," she added.
So was Linden's Catholic faith and making sure his children and grandchildren were taken care of, his daughters said.
He also pushed hard to see that his three children graduated from college -- and threw a party for each of them when they did.
Occasionally, Linden would send $20 and words of encouragement to his grandchildren, as his older sisters, Elise and Dorothy, had done for him when he was in college, Snider wrote in her eulogy.
Linden also cared lovingly for his first wife, Helen, who died in 1984 of cancer. At the time they were living in Utah, where Linden worked for Commercial Shearing and Stamping, the company he had served as a plant manager for more than 35 years.
"When Mom got sick, he visited her in the hospital before work, at lunch and after work for a year," Downs said.
During that time, Linden also assumed the family chores and "became the ultimate bargain hunter and consummate comparison shopper," Snider's eulogy said.
Eight years after his wife's death, Linden married Adele Reese. Snider said in the eulogy that "most of us are fortunate to find someone we love once. He fell deeply in love twice."
She noted that in the last few difficult months of their father's life, "Adele was there walking by his side the whole way."
Linden is survived by his wife, Adele; children Peggy Downs, Elizabeth Snider and Joe Jr.; four step-children Bobbie Hicken, Curry Kirkpatrick, Joanne Price and Bill Kirkpatrick; 18 grandchildren and eight great grandchildren.
Remembering Joseph W. Linden
Oceanside man was one of Fighting Irish's biggest fans
KATHY DAY - For the North County Times | Posted: July 11, 2008
OCEANSIDE -- If Notre Dame's Fighting Irish were on the football field, you could be pretty sure where to find Joseph W. Linden. If he wasn't at the game, he was glued to his television, his daughters said this week.
Linden, who moved to Oceanside 10 years ago, died June 20, 2008, after a battle with Parkinson's disease. He was 86.
Linden grew up in Chicago, where he was born on March 6, 1922. He attended Notre Dame for four years before serving for the next four in the U.S. Navy, so his ties to the university go way back.
But the bond grew that much stronger because Linden's sister, Elise, was married to Ed "Moose" Krause -- who for 31 years was the school's athletic director and was known as Mr. Notre Dame.
Linden was passionate about the school and its football team.
"We didn't dare call him when Notre Dame was playing unless it was halftime," his daughter Peggy Downs said.
Whenever Linden had a chance to attend a game, he'd be there, going to pregame parties and sitting in the team's box as his brother-in-law's guest.
"He'd always call us when he got home and talk about the game," daughter Elizabeth Snider said.
Last year, when he was too ill to attend games, Snider went to see Notre Dame play at Stanford and called him on her cell phone so he could hear the band and sounds from the game.
"Football was a huge piece of his life," she added.
So was Linden's Catholic faith and making sure his children and grandchildren were taken care of, his daughters said.
He also pushed hard to see that his three children graduated from college -- and threw a party for each of them when they did.
Occasionally, Linden would send $20 and words of encouragement to his grandchildren, as his older sisters, Elise and Dorothy, had done for him when he was in college, Snider wrote in her eulogy.
Linden also cared lovingly for his first wife, Helen, who died in 1984 of cancer. At the time they were living in Utah, where Linden worked for Commercial Shearing and Stamping, the company he had served as a plant manager for more than 35 years.
"When Mom got sick, he visited her in the hospital before work, at lunch and after work for a year," Downs said.
During that time, Linden also assumed the family chores and "became the ultimate bargain hunter and consummate comparison shopper," Snider's eulogy said.
Eight years after his wife's death, Linden married Adele Reese. Snider said in the eulogy that "most of us are fortunate to find someone we love once. He fell deeply in love twice."
She noted that in the last few difficult months of their father's life, "Adele was there walking by his side the whole way."
Linden is survived by his wife, Adele; children Peggy Downs, Elizabeth Snider and Joe Jr.; four step-children Bobbie Hicken, Curry Kirkpatrick, Joanne Price and Bill Kirkpatrick; 18 grandchildren and eight great grandchildren.
Oceanside man was one of Fighting Irish's biggest fans
KATHY DAY - For the North County Times | Posted: July 11, 2008
OCEANSIDE -- If Notre Dame's Fighting Irish were on the football field, you could be pretty sure where to find Joseph W. Linden. If he wasn't at the game, he was glued to his television, his daughters said this week.
Linden, who moved to Oceanside 10 years ago, died June 20, 2008, after a battle with Parkinson's disease. He was 86.
Linden grew up in Chicago, where he was born on March 6, 1922. He attended Notre Dame for four years before serving for the next four in the U.S. Navy, so his ties to the university go way back.
But the bond grew that much stronger because Linden's sister, Elise, was married to Ed "Moose" Krause -- who for 31 years was the school's athletic director and was known as Mr. Notre Dame.
Linden was passionate about the school and its football team.
"We didn't dare call him when Notre Dame was playing unless it was halftime," his daughter Peggy Downs said.
Whenever Linden had a chance to attend a game, he'd be there, going to pregame parties and sitting in the team's box as his brother-in-law's guest.
"He'd always call us when he got home and talk about the game," daughter Elizabeth Snider said.
Last year, when he was too ill to attend games, Snider went to see Notre Dame play at Stanford and called him on her cell phone so he could hear the band and sounds from the game.
"Football was a huge piece of his life," she added.
So was Linden's Catholic faith and making sure his children and grandchildren were taken care of, his daughters said.
He also pushed hard to see that his three children graduated from college -- and threw a party for each of them when they did.
Occasionally, Linden would send $20 and words of encouragement to his grandchildren, as his older sisters, Elise and Dorothy, had done for him when he was in college, Snider wrote in her eulogy.
Linden also cared lovingly for his first wife, Helen, who died in 1984 of cancer. At the time they were living in Utah, where Linden worked for Commercial Shearing and Stamping, the company he had served as a plant manager for more than 35 years.
"When Mom got sick, he visited her in the hospital before work, at lunch and after work for a year," Downs said.
During that time, Linden also assumed the family chores and "became the ultimate bargain hunter and consummate comparison shopper," Snider's eulogy said.
Eight years after his wife's death, Linden married Adele Reese. Snider said in the eulogy that "most of us are fortunate to find someone we love once. He fell deeply in love twice."
She noted that in the last few difficult months of their father's life, "Adele was there walking by his side the whole way."
Linden is survived by his wife, Adele; children Peggy Downs, Elizabeth Snider and Joe Jr.; four step-children Bobbie Hicken, Curry Kirkpatrick, Joanne Price and Bill Kirkpatrick; 18 grandchildren and eight great grandchildren.
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