Rest in Peace Jenny/TubaDiva

Someone · #1 2nd July 2020, 06:08 PM

Notice here: https://www.wagesfuneralhome.com/obi...nifer-Paradis/

SDMB thread: https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tu...ed-away/914121

This is a memorial thread. There will be no snark.

Someone · #2 2nd July 2020, 06:11 PM

For all the shit I gave her, she did a much^infinity better job than I ever could, and no one cared more about the durp or worked harder at it. RIP, Jenny.

::solemnly plays Taps on her tiny tuba::

Someone · #3 2nd July 2020, 06:16 PM

I’m speechless. This is awful

Someone · #4 2nd July 2020, 06:31 PM

Very sad and jarring news. My condolences to her friends and loved ones. RIP.

Someone · #5 2nd July 2020, 06:42 PM

WTH? This is one of those things I wouldn't ever have believed. I'm still not sure I believe it. RIP Jenny.

Someone · #6 2nd July 2020, 06:45 PM

very sad news. RIP, Jenny.

Someone · #7 2nd July 2020, 06:46 PM

I know it sounds weird, but I feel like the best way to honor her memory is to make the new board a success. She put so much into it, and really cared. I don't know, it's just shocking.

R.I.P. Tubadiva. I didn't know you, but I admired your perseverance, patience and warm humor in dealing with all of us ingrates. I hope you're now part of a majestic orchestra in the great beyond.

Someone · #8 2nd July 2020, 06:58 PM

This is horribly shocking! I'm speechless.

Someone · #9 2nd July 2020, 06:58 PM

Jennifer Paradis
Also Known As Jennifer D Hagar

Age 65

Stone Mountain, GA
Decatur, GA

I'm pretty sure this is Tuba. 65 is too young to pass on. I hope she didn't suffer.

Someone · #10 2nd July 2020, 06:59 PM

That’s her

Someone · #11 2nd July 2020, 07:03 PM

I just found out an urban planner friend of mine was also friends with her! One degree of separation. Damn.

Thank you, Jenny. I'm glad she was able to see the SDMB move to a better place during her lifetime. Respect.

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I know it sounds weird, but I feel like the best way to honor her memory is to make the new board a success. She put so much into it, and really cared.

This.

Someone · #12 2nd July 2020, 07:09 PM

dang, that's sad. I hope that all who knew her can find solace in knowing how much she brought to the teeming millions.

RIP Jenny.

Someone · #13 2nd July 2020, 07:11 PM

I had talked to her just possibly hours before she died. I had no indication anything was amiss. I’ve known her for more than 20 years, met her in Atlanta and spent lots of time with her in Chicago, and spent a lot of time chatting recently. We used to be closer and send Christmas cards/gifts, but drifted apart for no real reason. Fierra and I are shocked and so very sad.

She did a lot behind the scenes to help with the Straight Dope column and website for 2 decades, and she helped very much with a lot of crap repetitive IT jobs that literally no one else was willing to do, but had to be done. She was a vital and tireless part of the team who produced the column, and never complained about the work.

Someone · #14 2nd July 2020, 07:15 PM

I’m sorry, Una, for the loss of your friend. She was definitely larger than life.

Someone · #15 2nd July 2020, 07:19 PM

I forget who said it (wasn't Jenny), but when someone asked if she actually played the tuba, said, "Not only does she play the tuba, when she plays, she wins."

Someone · #16 2nd July 2020, 07:23 PM

Maybe we could do something like this...
Plant a tree in memory of.
https://www.alivingtribute.org/

Someone · #17 2nd July 2020, 07:43 PM

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Originally Posted by Someone

I know it sounds weird, but I feel like the best way to honor her memory is to make the new board a success. She put so much into it, and really cared. I don't know, it's just shocking. .

It's more corny than weird but I totally agree. I can't believe one of her last acts was to give birth to the New Dope. We didn't see eye to eye on much but she was earnest in her love of the community. Crazy loss to the SDMB.

Someone · #18 2nd July 2020, 07:55 PM

She did a yeoman's job making the transition as smooth as it could possibly be, and addressing all the grumps and grouchings afterwards. You don't see dedication like that much anywhere, let alone on dinky obscure messageboards.

Someone · #19 2nd July 2020, 08:08 PM

I am completely thunderstruck.

Someone · #20 2nd July 2020, 08:14 PM

What a loss, I haven't been active on the Dope for years, and even when I was, it would hardly been considered 'active'...but I always lurked and appreciated her attempts to try and herd cats, we can all be a snarky and contentious bunch, but right now, just prayers and thoughts for her family, wow, I am so sorry to hear this...

Someone · #21 2nd July 2020, 08:21 PM

This is a staggering blow.

Someone · #22 2nd July 2020, 08:51 PM

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Originally Posted by Someone

Respect.

Seconded.

She really did a lot in these last few weeks for the ole dope, and did a better job at it than I thought possible. Much respect indeed.

Someone · #23 2nd July 2020, 09:35 PM

It actually kinda bums me out that I can't post to the memorial thread. To that point, I think it should be "Tuba's Migration".

Someone · #24 2nd July 2020, 11:13 PM

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Originally Posted by Someone

I know it sounds weird, but I feel like the best way to honor her memory is to make the new board a success. She put so much into it, and really cared. I don't know, it's just shocking.

R.I.P. Tubadiva. I didn't know you, but I admired your perseverance, patience and warm humor in dealing with all of us ingrates. I hope you're now part of a majestic orchestra in the great beyond.

It's NOT weird. It's absolutely what we should do. Much love and respect Jenny!

No one fights in our corner now.

Someone · #25 3rd July 2020, 03:27 AM

Wow. This can't be true. I'm reading all the posts and I'm thinking this can't be true. But it's true. Our only interaction was a few months ago and she was as kind and thoughtful as she could be. RIP Jenny.

Someone · #26 3rd July 2020, 03:36 AM

This is a nice thread: Tributes to Jennifer Paradis (@TubaDiva) - musical, visual, and written

Someone · #27 3rd July 2020, 04:11 AM

I remember emailing her about the main Straight Dope page even before I joined the board.
And she was a fellow band nerd.
RIP. So sad.

Someone · #28 3rd July 2020, 05:04 AM

I can't believe this. It seems like it is out of nowhere. Hell it is out of nowhere.

Someone · #29 3rd July 2020, 07:32 AM

Absolute shock.

Someone · #30 3rd July 2020, 07:38 AM

Wow.

Someone · #31 3rd July 2020, 07:47 AM

Oh, crap.

Someone · #32 3rd July 2020, 08:26 AM

Very sad day. RIP.

Someone · #33 3rd July 2020, 08:58 AM

Dang, that was super sudden--I guess she'd had a stroke previously so maybe another one? If that was it then I'm glad for her that it was sudden and final, no hanging around with deficits and pain. Blessed be, Jenny, may the Goddess hold you close.

Someone · #34 3rd July 2020, 09:09 AM

Yeah, what SA said. /crying

Someone · #35 3rd July 2020, 10:02 AM

Someone · #36 3rd July 2020, 10:21 AM

She and I used to email back and forth up til 2009 or so. I associated her with the bad parts of the SDMB, something that was not conscious on my part but still very unfair to her. I know Jenny had some chronic illnesses, including depression...and I'm just hoping on hope that it wasn't depression that killed her. A different cause of death doesn't make it any less final, but it would mean, hopefully, that her last days weren't filled with the agony of terminal depression.

Let your energy disperse at will, fellow band nerd. You made the world a better place for a lot of people who never met you, and they'll continue to enjoy your decades of work.

Someone · #37 3rd July 2020, 11:12 AM

Way too young.
Fuck death.

Someone · #38 3rd July 2020, 11:29 AM

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Someone · #39 3rd July 2020, 11:32 AM

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Originally Posted by Someone

Maybe we could do something like this...
Plant a tree in memory of.
https://www.alivingtribute.org/

That's a nice idea. I'd be willing to throw in if we do something like that.

RIP Tuba. Very sad news.

Someone · #40 3rd July 2020, 11:39 AM

R.I.P. Tuba Diva. I never interacted with her, but she was a presence on the Dope for all the time I've been aware of the Board. The Dope is less for her loss.

Someone · #41 3rd July 2020, 12:07 PM

First thing I saw on facebook today was a post from a friend (Ranger Jeff), shocked.
she reached out to me via facebook after what, a decade or more since I left the dope? I accepted her outreach, glad I did. Life is too short.

tell people NOW how much they mean to you.

Someone · #42 3rd July 2020, 12:31 PM

Goodbye Jenny. You did more for the Straight Dope community than anyone else. To say "thank you" seems so inadequate for the debt that we all owe to you, but those are the only words that I have.

Rest In Peace, my friend.

Someone · #43 3rd July 2020, 12:43 PM

I don't know, those words tugged at my heart.

Someone · #44 3rd July 2020, 12:58 PM

My last interactions with her weren't great and I definitely didn't see eye to eye with her on a lot of stuff, but damn. She put in so much work on that board and dealt with so many cantankerous assholes with a lot of patience. This is so sad and unfair and a loss for us all.

RIP Jenny.

Someone · #45 3rd July 2020, 01:06 PM

No services

Jennifer D. Paradis
February 21, 1955 - July 1, 2020

Jennifer Denise Paradis, age 65 of Decatur, GA, passed away on Wednesday, July 1, 2020.

The family has chosen cremation and there are no services planned at this time.

Someone · #46 3rd July 2020, 03:44 PM

No. No way. Of all the posters on the Dope, TUBA is the last one that I would've suspected.

Someone · #47 3rd July 2020, 05:16 PM

She was so young!

Someone · #48 3rd July 2020, 05:44 PM

I am shocked.

Someone · #49 5th July 2020, 02:30 PM

RIP, sweet Jenny.

Someone · #50 5th July 2020, 02:38 PM

This is shocking. I just emailed her a couple of weeks ago! Very sad.