Linnea somehow met Kathy Burks, a Dallas Symphony Orchestra cellist, and mother of two teenagers who were very involved with the Dallas Junior League which is a group for performing arts interested children and teens. Kathy's teens, Douglass and Becky, showed great interest in puppetry and Kathy eventually purchased the Sue Hastings Marionettes collection from Linnea sometime during the middle 1970s. Linnea spent many hours tirelessly teaching Kathy and her children the wonderful art of the puppet, especially concentrating on construction, performance and maintenance of the quickly aging Hastings marionette collection.
