Linda (Swinderman) Cronebaugh has been widowed twice. Her first husband died from an extensive illness, and the second as a result of an accident. She has chosen to find hope within the ashes and share that hope with others.

She is an ordained minister and has written Bible devotionals for the Church of the Nazarene and the American Bible Society. Linda is mother to one adult son and two adult stepchildren and has two grandchildren who call her “Grandma Linda.”