Linda J. Gross

Cherished Wife And Daughter

Linda J. (Van Vlack) Gross, 55, died January 22, in New Jersey’s Cooper University Hospital. Born in Hartford, September 24, 1955, she was the beloved wife of Frederick J. Gross of Vineland, N.J., and the cherished daughter of Jennifer (Slocum) Skidmore of Newtown.

Ms Gross graduated from Newtown High School in 1973. She attended Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, N.Y., and graduated in 1977 with a bachelor of arts in English. The college hired her for their New York City fundraising office as its manager.

She became a member of the Marble Collegiate Church and two years later worked for Guideposts Magazine. She moved to Boston for a job in medical admissions at Tufts University. She was last employed at Western Connecticut State University before her marriage, on October 10, 1987.

She and her husband made their home in Vineland, N.J., where at the time of her death she was a member of the Sacred Heart Church and belonged to the Shekinah Chapter No. 82, Order of the Eastern Star.

Surviving her, besides her husband and her mother, are her stepfather, Richard M. Skidmore; her brother, Bert Van Vlack, his wife Peggy, and their two children; her father, Albert Van Vlack of Fort Myers, Fla.; and many other relatives. Also surviving are her mother-in-law, Mary Gross; her brother-in-law, George Gross, his wife, Daren, and two their children, of Doylestown, Penn.

Funeral arrangements by Wainwright Bernhardt Funeral Home, Vineland, N.J.

A memorial gift in Ms Gross’s name to the American Red Cross, 850 North Franklin Boulevard, Pleasantville N 08232, or www.redcross.org, would be very much appreciated, in lieu of flowers.

The Newtown Bee        January 28, 2011