CBS News By Danya Bacchus CBS News May 9, 2021, 6:25 PM
Foster mom on the 81 infants she s cared for: They all have a mark in your life
Linda Owens has spent much of her life opening her home and heart to the smallest in need. Over more than 34 years, she s fostered 81 infants and counting. I never married and I never had children, Owens said, adding, It s a rewarding, very rewarding, heartwarming thing to be able to have sleepless nights.
The 78-year-old, who lives near the San Francisco Bay Area, has been given many names over the years, including Mama Linda, Miss Linda and Baby Whisperer. She said she remembers all of the children she s cared for.
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Linda Owens has spent much of her life opening her home and heart to the smallest in need. Over more than 34 years, she s fostered 81 infants and counting. I never married and I never had children, Owens said, adding, It s a rewarding, very rewarding, heartwarming thing to be able to have sleepless nights.
The 78-year-old, who lives near the San Francisco Bay Area, has been given many names over the years, including Mama Linda, Miss Linda and Baby Whisperer. She said she remembers all of the children she s cared for. They all have a mark in your life, she said. I have pictures of when I started. I ve got pictures in drawers and pictures in boxes.
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In 1966, Uncle Sam took the U.S. mail off passenger trains and began to move it by truck and plane. Passenger service came to a halt in many towns over the next 20 years, and depots tumbled. But not the one in Marshall.
Madison County native Forrest Jarrett, Norfolk Southern director of police in the 1980s, got a call from his mother, Mama Linda. Forrest! Yes, ma am. They re going to tear the old Marshall depot down. We don t want that to happen. No, ma am. That s where Papa Olin caught the train to come to see me down at Hot Springs.
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