Linda Reid

Linda Ann Dell’Uomo Reid, beloved wife to Dr. Patrick Vincent Reid of North Providence and beloved mother to Rebekah Jane Reid and Timothy Patrick Reid both of Providence, passed from this life on October 9, 2024 after a brief battle with cancer.

Linda was born on March 17, 1948 at Mercy Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland to Marie Papini Dell’Uomo and John Dell’Uomo who had their daughter baptized at St. Leo’s Catholic Church in Baltimore. She attended Mercy High School in Baltimore in the 1960’s where she was heavily involved in music and theatre creating a student folk group called “The Transitions” and at the encouragement of the Sisters of Mercy began to cantor Catholic masses due to liturgical changes in the years after the Second Vatican Council. She graduated Mt. St. Agnes College in Baltimore majoring in Literature with minors in Theater and Theology. For two years she taught English at The Catholic High School girls school in Baltimore. She met her dearly beloved husband, Patrick, in Baltimore and were married on August 21, 1971. In 1977 they moved their family of 4 to North Providence, RI. Linda immediately became involved with St. Thomas Parish in Providence, RI sending her daughter to Kindergarten at the parish grade school and lending her musical gifts of singing and guitar playing to the parish choir. By 1982, Linda had taken leadership of the music ministry at St. Thomas and has led that music ministry for 44 years enriching the spiritual and prayer life of countless members and visitors to St. Thomas Church. Throughout those 44 years she has cantored the weekend liturgies at St. Thomas, taught theology classes alongside her husband Dr. Pat Reid on music and Scripture, played hundreds of funerals and weddings, provided music for several other parishes in the Diocese of Providence on special feasts and occasions, taken graduate courses in Liturgical Ministry at both the University of Notre Dame and Boston College, created and donated crafts to benefit the parishes’ holiday bazaar, and has provided guidance and inspiration for many to use their talents to serve others in this world. 

Linda is survived by her husband, Dr. Patrick Reid; her beloved children Rebekah Reid and Timothy Reid; her daughters-in-law, Lauren Mullaney-Reid and Taryn Mallard-Reid, her grandson Tyler Reid and granddaughter Taya Reid (the lights of her life); her sister Jean (Dell’Uomo) Kelley and brother (John) Mark Dell’Uomo; her brothers-in-law Patrick Kelley, James Reid, John Reid, Robert Reid, Todd Misk and sisters-in-law Jean (Newcomer) Dell’Uomo, Mary (Reid) Traynor, Carol Reid, Mary-Alice Reid; and she is survived also by several nieces, nephews, and cousins.

Linda’s funeral will be held on Wednesday, October 16, 2024 at 9 a.m. from the Maceroni Funeral Home, 1381 Smith St., North Providence, followed by a Mass of Christian Burial at 10 a.m. in St. Thomas Church, 65 Fruit Hill Ave., Providence. Interment will follow in Highland Memorial Park, Johnston. Visitation will be held on Tuesday, October 15, 2024 from 4 – 7 p.m. In lieu of flowers, the family asks that you can make a donation to either The Autism Project of Rhode Island at 1516 Atwood Avenue in Johnston, RI 02919 or St. Thomas Church Food Pantry, 65 Fruit Hill Ave., Providence, RI 02909.