Linda Fox

Linda Darlene Fox nee Redsky aged 59 suddenly passed away Saturday December 2 at 230 am at the Thunder Bay Health Sciences Centre.

Linda was born in Kenora on July 13, 1958 to Rosie Redsky & Matthew Sinclair. She lost her mother in 1973 then raised by Jean Redsky, Charles Redsky, Mary Agnes Redsky & Mary Rose Munroe. She lived her childhood years in Red Lake, Kenora and Central Patricia. Linda is from treaty 3 Shoal Lake #40. She attended Cecelia Jeffrey Residential School for a few years until she lost her mother and married July 1976 to Charles Fox. She married when she was 18, she always said her other mother was Georgina and was taught many skills. She lived her adult years in Bearskin Lake and moved to Sioux Lookout and onto Thunder Bay where she lived most of her years and called home. She has been employed at Wequedong Lodge for 27 years, which she had a passion and love for.

Linda’s love for her family kept her busy after work. She loved cooking up a storm for every occasion which will be truly missed by her children and grandchildren. She always loved watching her grandchildren play hockey and she’d be yelling like a hockey kookoom as she’d get excited clapping. Linda also had many skills; she sewed, beaded, made moccasins, purses and mittens. She knew how to prepare wild food and prepare hide which she learned from her mother in law. She was always a hard worker and strong, she used to carry her youngest on her back in his Tikinagan while carrying two buckets of water up the hill to her house. She always mentioned how she loved it on the family trampoline and being with family.

Linda will be really missed by her children, grandchildren, many family and friends. Linda is survived by her children; Clarissa Fox-Matthews (David Matthews), Derek Fox, and Lyle aka Bunge Fox (Merry Francis), grandchildren; Daralynn Fox, Brandel Matthews, Patricia Matthews, Darryl Fox-Wapioke, Kairn Fox-Wapioke, Evan Fox, Jordana Fox, Brody Fox, Phenix Fox-Condo, McKenna Morriseau, and Trenton Morriseau. She is survived by her brother Orton Redsky (Marcia), sister Debbie Thunder and many cousins she considered sisters and brothers on the Redsky side. She is survived by her auntie (mom) Jean Redsky and also many relatives from the Fox and Redsky side.

Linda meets her son, Lucian Darryl Fox up in the spirit world. She also meets her parents Rosie Redsky and Matthew Sinclair; her in laws who she considered her other parents John & Georgina Fox.