Linda Ann Leffman

Linda Ann Leffman was born at Sinai Hospital in Baltimore on June 9, 1940, the child of Maurice and Dorothy Stiller. She died from multiple causes at Sinai Hospital on Sunday August 3, 2025.

Linda attended the Baltimore public schools and the Park School from which she graduated. She then went on to college at Case Western Reserve in Cleveland, graduating with honors.

She was multi-talented, engaging in a huge number of activities, such as teaching in the public schools, serving as hospital receptionist, managing a low vision center, managing a cardiology practice, administering a sizable nursing home, serving as President of the congregation at the former Temple Emmanuel, for which she also volunteered selling hot dogs and beer at Ravens and Orioles games. Among her many activities were playing bridge, caring, breeding and raising cats, and volunteering at the Baltimore County Violence and Rape crisis hotline. She was highly interested in improving the future of people's lives, and participated in medical studies for the brain, Alzheimer's disease, cholesterol and flu vaccines. Linda befriended a huge number of people who frequently sought her advice.

She is survived by a son, Steven Potashnick, a grandson, Josh Potashnick, loving nephews Lewis, Michael, and Kenneth Stiller, great nephews, Will and Teddy Stiller, Drs. William and Lawrence Heller and their families, and her beloved brother, Shale D. Stiller, and his wife, Ellen.

Services at Sol Levinson's Chapel, 8900 Reisterstown Road, Pikesville, MD 21208, on Wednesday, August 6th, 2025, at 1pm. Interment Beth Jacob Cemetery - Finksburg, MD. Please omit flowers. Contributions in her memory may be sent to the American Cancer Society, P.O. Box 6704, Hagerstown, MD 21741. The family will be in mourning at 807 St. Georges Road, Baltimore, MD 21210 on Wednesday and Thursday.