Fishman, Linda (Kessler)
Linda (Kessler) Fishman died peacefully on July 23, 2021, at the age of 87, after a difficult battle with pancreatic cancer. She rejoins her husband of 64 years, David, who passed in January, who she deeply missed. Linda was born to Joseph and Bertha (Brodsky) Kessler on March 31, 1934, in Meriden, CT. She graduated from Pembroke College (Brown University) in Providence, RI, where she met David in the bookstore on the first day of their senior year. Their fate was sealed in an English class they shared, when David sat down next to her on the day the professor declared that these were now assigned seats for the semester. After graduating in May of 1956 they were married in her parent's living room in
Meriden on November 25 of that year. The young couple first moved to Buffalo, NY, but found it too snowy, and then moved to Bloomfield, CT, and (mostly) lived there and in West Hartford, except for summers, which they spent at their beach house in Green Hill, RI. She and David loved that house and that beach, and gathered family and friends there for most of the rest of their lives. Linda was an excellent cook, baker, and gourmand. She was always game for lobster rolls, oysters, and dessert, especially cookies. Linda also loved her bridge games and friends. Linda was an accomplished knitter, especially of sweaters, which will continue to be cherished for many years to
come. Linda and David were inveterate world travelers and lovers of opera. She was generous, kind, and slyly funny. During her last illness Linda was lovingly cared for by her son Douglas, his wife Dena, and grandchildren Zoe and Lili Fishman, who loved their grandma very much (it was a mutual love-fest).
She leaves her son, Douglas Fishman and his wife, Dena Rosenbloom, daughter Sarah Boyle and her partner Raul Cooke, her grandchildren Zoe and Lili Fishman, Mathias and Casey Boyle, and step-grandchildren Lia Rosenbloom and Aaron Rosenbloom-Snow. She also leaves her brothers Richard and Lew Kessler, and David's siblings Susan Anderson, Laura Landes and husband Jerry, Bernice Simons, and Charles (Chuck) Fishman and his wife Margaret, as well as many nieces, nephews and cousins.
A graveside services will be held on Monday, July 26, at 11am, and all are welcome to attend either in-person or via Zoom. Linda would be pleased to know that donations in her memory have been made to The Hartford Artisans
Weaving Center (https://www.weavingcenter.org), or the Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research (https:// tribute.michaeljfox.org). For further information or to sign the guest book for Linda, please visit online at www.
weinsteinmortuary.com/funerals.