Linda Guynup Dewey's Obituary
Linda Guynup Dewey passed away on Oct. 31, 2024. She was born in Oregon City, Ore., on Feb. 24, 1943, the daughter of Melville Brooks Guynup and Patricia Burton Guynup. She attended Eastham Grade School and graduated from Oregon City High School. During high school, Linda was active in Oregon City Bethel No. 23 (Job's Daughters).
After attending Portland State University, she worked for Blue Cross of Oregon and later joined Bachman-Ferris, an advertising agency. Linda volunteered with the Zoomsi Auction, supporting the Portland Zoo and Oregon Museum of Science and Industry. Along the way, she met Robert A. Dewey, Jr., who would eventually become her husband.
Linda continued her advertising career in San Francisco before joining the women's wear division of Levi Strauss & Co. Her love for doing needlepoint led her to purchase Black Sheep Needleworks, a prominent shop in San Francisco. Customers for the hand-painted needlepoint canvasses she sold included locals, worldwide visitors to San Francisco, and celebrity needlepointers.
As a Junior League member, Linda was on the team responsible for the organization's 1979 cookbook, "San Francisco a la Carte," published by Doubleday. She was also an avid genealogist, tracing her parents' and husbands' family trees to their early American roots.
Linda and Robert, known by his nickname, "Rad," were married in Portland in 1974. They celebrated their fiftieth anniversary shortly before her death. After 40 years in San Francisco, the couple moved to Felida, outside Vancouver, Wash.
Besides her husband, Linda is survived by her sister and brother-in-law, Kimberly and David Robben, two nephews, Jeffrey and Clifford, three great nieces, and many cousins in the Fresno, Calif., Area, where her mother's family lived. Since returning to the Pacific Northwest, she reunited as a class reunion committee member with old friends. Linda is also a more than 60-year member of Pioneer Chapter No. 28, Order of The Eastern Star. She will also be missed by her dog, Black Jack, the fourth Bouvier des Flandres she raised.
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