Linda Danney Britton, mother to Jeffrey and his sister Amy, has spent many years as a professional educator in public, private, and correctional education. She and her husband, Bill, are the primary caregivers of Jeffrey who is now is a hospice patient. A native Buffalo, New Yorker, Linda moved to Florida after graduation from the University of Buffalo and wrote feature stories for Sunrise Magazine part of the then Today newspaper (now Florida Today). She has been published in These Days, a devotional magazine, writing about "Hidden Treasures."