Lynne Posner

Oct. 3, 1948 - Feb. 15, 2025

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Lynne Hildebrant Posner, 1948-2025 Lynne Hildebrant was born in Napa in October 1948, the daughter of George and Joan Hildebrant. As a toddler she helped her parents bake the adobe bricks from which they built the family home, at a time when Napa was still known for its mental hospital and prunes rather than its vineyards. The oldest of four (Gordon, Wendy, and Shelby), Lynne grew up riding bikes and making mudpies in the adobe house atop a hill in the family’s tight-knit South Napa neighborhood. A standout student at Napa High, Lynne entered U.C. Berkeley in 1966. There, she met her husband, David Posner, in 1968, and they spent some very happy years there amidst the tumult of the Bay Area in the late 1960s. She and David married in 1970 and for 55 years enjoyed a wonderful partnership built on mutual respect, shared humor, lots of music, and bottomless love. With David, she moved to Chicago in 1977, where their first child, Charles Jacob (C.J.) was born. Later, they moved to San Jose, where C.J. was joined by Miriam in 1979 and Rebecca in 1982. When Lynne was 45, the family was euphoric to welcome the much-longed-for fourth child, whom she named Elyanah (God Has Answered). Lynne

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