About Us

Linda Bickel Grassi, raised in Wildwood Crest and a graduate of Wildwood High School, was a Glenwood Avenue Elementary School teacher in Wildwood, NJ for 20 years. She was a happy, funny person who was always smiling, fondly known to everyone as a daughter, sister, wife, mother and friend.

When diagnosed with ovarian cancer, Linda had to travel to Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York for treatment. Her close friends and co-workers came together to raise funds to help defray the enormous costs of her treatment and the ancillary expenses. They mostly raised money for Linda’s travel costs – tolls, gas, hotel costs and food expenses, things that can eat into someone’s budget unknowingly.

Sadly, Linda lost her battle with cancer in May of 1994 at the age of 46, but her close friends and co-workers decided that the love and concern for Linda should live on to help other cancer patients in Cape May County. To do this, they created the Love of Linda Cancer Fund, Inc., established in 1994.

Although Love of Linda started with assisting just three patients during its first year of inception, the organization has since then assisted over 2,500 cancer patients in Cape May County and disbursed over $1.6 million to assist with these patients’ ancillary expenses.