Linda Opdycke
speaker
105 appearances
6 recordings
1 series
first heard Apr 2025
last heard May 2025
Linda Opdycke’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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He was very bright and witty and charming.
So I drove over and met him and did a day of fishing. And that began when we started dating shortly thereafter.
You know, he was incredibly bright, eccentric, had a lot of similar interests that I did.
I grew up with my family doing a lot of camping. On Whidbey Island we have a small beach cabin up there and I grew up saltwater fishing, salmon fishing. I was born in California and then moved when I was very young to Bellevue, Washington. I went to junior high and high school there.
I was very involved in horseback riding and competed doing Grand Prix jumping and that was really my passion and where I spent my time in my youth.
Well, it probably depends on who you'd ask.
Yes, he started with, came from very middle class background and went to University of Washington and then really became involved in a lot of different businesses, one of them being Chateau Saint-Michel, developing that.
Yes, it is. I'm very proud of his accomplishments that way. He was also involved in K2 Ski Company and Jansport Sporting Goods and different businesses throughout his career.
Yes. It was all of my, what we developed there was my business idea, my development, my money. I did capitalize it to go in.
Beautiful piece of property that my family has owned, no longer owns, but did purchase in the 80s.
I don't think there's probably many places like that, whether dogs live on there or people live on there. It's just a terrific place.
For example, an avocado that was too much money really upset him. I remember another time I was... Excuse me.
Yes, yes.
I'm absolutely serious, yes. He would be in a rage that I spent too much money and it was an inappropriate expenditure on things.
And we were working, you know, seven days a week, 15-hour days, and there was really not any time for personal relationships.
I just kept thinking that if I could reduce our workload, if we could make some changes and try to get more personal time, that the relationship could be salvageable and work. So we went through some counseling, and at that point in time, Mark did want to get married. And I, again, because of the commitment, said, okay.
Things were fine for about four months after the marriage, and then it really started going south.
I think my desires for a personal, truly a personal loving marriage and relationship was something that he did not want to provide and could not provide.
Kickett Island meant a lot to Mark because it had quite a prestige to it.
I saw him becoming more aggressive with people, for example, on the property that were trespassing, pulling guns on people and threatening them, being verbally aggressive and very threatening.
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