Linda Kennedy Edwards
Linda Kennedy Edwards
April 10, 1947 – February 15, 2026
Born in 1947, Linda grew up in the Skinker DeBaliviere neighborhood of St. Louis where she began her foray into the hijinks of life with her sisters Mary and Pat at St. Roch’s School.
In her twenties she fell in love with Joe Edwards and in 1972 they opened Blueberry Hill Restaurant & Music Club which grew into an iconic St. Louis institution and kindled the revitalization of the Delmar Loop.
In 1986 she debuted her visually-dazzling corner window displays at Blueberry Hill, many with live performances. They ranged from holiday tours de force like “Trimming Santa’s Tree” and “Easter Bunny’s Kitchen” to off-the-wall concepts like “Rosemary’s Baby Shower” and “The Terrifying Dentist’s Chair on Halloween.”
Her daughter Hope documented Linda’s oeuvre in the book The Window Display Art of Linda Edwards at Blueberry Hill Restaurant & Music Club. Linda’s creativity will perpetually shine from the coffee tables of fans everywhere.
Linda was a powerhouse of wit, irreverent humor, style, drama, love, and profound generosity. She was the life and soul of the party.
She will forever remain in the hearts of her family and friends, including husband Joe Edwards, daughters Christine and Hope Edwards, sons-in-law Lee Todorovich and Josh Sommovilla, sister Pat Kennedy, and lifelong friends Barb Dulick, MaryAnn Smith, and Carol Conway-Long.
In lieu of flowers, donations to Fund for Investigative Journalism in Linda’s honor are preferred.
Dear Joe, Hope and Christine…….i am so sorry to hear of Linda’s death! I have so many fond memories of all the fun we used to have together!!! Becky had so much fun with Hope and Christine!
You are all in my thoughts and prayers!
Love, Tia
Oh! I cannot imagine the world without Linda! Indeed, she will always be near, right inside our heart!
Linda was such a talented, witty lady. I am so sorry to hear of her passing.
We were friends at Nerinx, co-conspirators in high jinksand mayhem. She had a brilliant mind and imagination, a devilish sense of humor, a generous heart that knew no bounds, deeply spiritual while also counter-cultural (a word and practice we need to revive)… in short, a truly free spirit. I will miss her in this world and hopefully meet her again in the next.
Dear Joe, Christine, Hope & Family, my deepest condolences, Linda was an inspiration to so many artists (myself included) and she will be missed by many she touched in Saint Louis with her creativity and spirit.
~Bill Lodderhose
Dear Pat, Joe, Christine and Hope
You have my deepest sympathy for your loss. All of you are in my prayers.
Linda’s death leaves a huge, sad hole in my heart. I was so blessed to have known her as my friend almost all of our lives.
Arline
To the family,
Linda was an amazing friend since grade school. She used to arrange her room in arrangements. It was as if she was practicing for the windows at Blueberry Hill. I will always remember our fun with flooding the patio for ice skating, the small drama of Sleeping Beauty in the playhouse, and making a library of books from both houses complete with pockets for check out cards. She was very creative and a kind friend. We have stayed in touch as adults although not as often as I would have liked.
I hope wonderful memories will provide comfort to all.
Dear Joe , Christine and Hope, your mother was my dear friend. I am so sad to learn of her passing. She had the greatest sense of humor and the biggest heart I’ve ever known. She loved Valentine’s Day and the celebrations in the Elvis room were always a blast. I was also on the Lady balls bowling team. I was so happy when I received the coffee table book that Hope made in the mail. I know it made Linda so happy. I’m so glad that Hope went to the trouble to do this and acknowledge all the hard work that went into that window. I will miss Linda very much. She was so proud of you girls. She talked about you all the time. Sending love and hugs to the family. Love always, Rommie.
Dear Joe,Christine and Hope.
I’m really going to miss Linda , she was always a joy to be around and I’m so glad I had the opportunity to be a part of her life for over 40 years. When time for her hair she would call and say it’s time to be made me beautiful again. We became more than a hairdresser and client we became friends and I’m so sad and I’m going to miss my friend.
Dear Joe, Hope, Christine, and family, please accept our sincere condolences. Linda was always so much fun to be around. Her sense of adventure and love of life were contagious. She touched so many lives and will be missed by anyone who had the pleasure to know her. Know that you are all in our thoughts.
So sorry about your loss. Ruthie rassieur
Dear Joe, Hope and Christine.
So sorry for your loss. Linda was a very kind person with so much talent and love. I feel so lucky that I got to know her. I will keep warm memories about Linda.
Dear Joe, Hope & Christine,
Linda was a heroine to me. I grew up 2 doors away and you all were the good part of our community scaffolding that kept me safe. Linda came running out of your house one day, put her arms around me like I was one of her own, and told the boys that were bullying me to beat it. I was 8. They were 15.
She made me welcome in your home and I was lucky to know your family, as a neighbor-friend for the first 17 years of my life. I got to be part of the world who welcomed Hope & Christine to Earth, even babysat a few times. (Hope, you were such a precious toddler, and Christine, such a happy baby).
Talk about window art! Your annual Christmas tree in the front window of your house is one of my fondest memories, growing up. Thank you Joe for partnering with such a Grace filled, creative soul. Both of you made my life better. Safer. Friendlier. I’m so sorry you lost her from your every day, waking world, I can’t imagine your pain, but I hope she visits you in a dream & walks beside you with your Team
Hope and Christine, you lucky, lucky women! To be blessed with such an amazing mother! To be half HER! Every blessing she carried from your ancestors and passed directly through to you in blood, in voice, in a field of Grace like no other, is now yours to carry & amplify all the very best parts of her that live in you.
I’m so sorry for your loss. All of you, friends & family, and I wish you comfort through the grief as you turn every corner of remembrance. I hope she visits you in dreams & makes her Spirit known & felt in your world as you move in and out of the frequency fields of life’s poetry.
Creator bless you all in this time, and Well come home his own Angel, Linda.
(Dear Linda, when you see my mom, Linda Potash… Please give her a hug from. Her daughters!)