University of Illinois Memorial: Remembering the life, death and legacy of Linda Meiss
passed away on May 19, 2018. Born in Gary, Indiana in 1944, Linda grew up in northern Indiana. The only child of Arthur and Evelyn House, she attended elementary schools in the Gary area before moving to New Jersey, where she graduated from Freehold High School; from there she went on to earn degrees from the University of Delaware and the University of Illinois and also studied for many years at IUPUI. Educated as both a scientist and a teacher, for many years she taught biology, botany,...
