Linda Keydash Cart's Obituary
Linda Pauline Keydash Cart, 74, passed away on May 23,2025. No Services have been planned at this time.
Linda was born in Baltimore, MD. She was the daughter of Melvin J. and Mary Paruszewski Keydash.
Linda is survived by her husband, Louis Cart; brother, John Keydash and his wife Debra; her sisters, Carol Keydash, Mary Keydash, Susan Taylor and her husband David; also survived by beloved nieces, nephews and cousins.
In Baltimore, Linda attended St. Dominic grade school and Mercy High School. She received degrees in music from the Hartford Conservatory of music and dance and the University of Connecticut with a Bachelor Degree in Science with Charter Oaks College.
Linda took computer classes leading to a career in IT with Aetna and IBM.
She loved arts and crafts, from drawing and painting to sewing clothes and creating costumes, to designing cat shelves from repurposed materials.
Linda played several instruments and sang with a gospel choir for ten years.
She loved dancing and enjoyed contra, international folk, Greek clogging and Cajun dancing.
Linda loved nature and hiked several mountains in New England and up state New York. She was a Ridge Runner for the Appalachian Mountain club one summer.
Linda traveled twice to Alaska to see the northern lights, completing the one item on her bucket list.
She was a great lover of Historical fiction and co-moderated a book group on
Facebook for several years. She and her husband were married in 1994, living amongst the Cajun people in Louis’ beloved Louisiana.
Linda believed kindness was the most beautiful gift one can share in the world and she took every opportunity to extend it to the elderly, health care workers, civil servants and retail associates.
She was an animal lover . She rescued over 50 dogs and cats throughout her life, giving them forever homes. They were her angels and she called them Jesus’ cats and dogs, telling them often “you are loved and cherished”, until they return to their Creator.
Linda leaves behind the following poem to be remembered by, dedicated to her siblings, John, Carol, Carolyn, Mary and Susan and her husband Louis.
'A Song of Living Funeral Poem' by Amelia Josephine Burr:
Because I have loved life, I shall have no sorrow to die
I have sent up my gladness on wings, to be lost in the blue of the sky.
I have run and leaped with the rain. I have taken the wind to my breast.
My cheek like a drowsy child to the face of the earth I have pressed.
Because I have loved life, I shall have no sorrow to die.
I have kissed young love on the lips. I have heard his song to the end.
I have struck my hand like a seal in the loyal hand of a friend.
I have known the peace of heaven, the comfort of work done well.
I have longed for death in the darkness and risen alive out of hell
Because I have loved life, I shall have no sorrow to die.
I give a share of my soul to the world where my course is run.
I know that another shall finish the task I must leave undone.
I know that no flower, nor flint was in vain on the path I trod.
As one looks on a face through a window, through life I have looked on God.
Because I have loved life, I shall have no sorrow to die.
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