Brenda was flying through Miami enroute to Jamaica and her Miami buds went to see her between flights. Linda grew up with Brenda and they both graduated from Kenwood High School in Essex, Maryland, in 1967. Linda moved to Homestead in December 1970, to Englewood on the Gulf Coast in 1981 and she now lives in North Port in Sarasota county. She has been married to John Grother for 38 years.