Upside_Down_Amber and I send our condolences out to Euty, Tim, and the kids.
I feel heartbroken. She was here when I registered, she was always a presence on the boards while I posted, she was everywhere on the Dope, she was here. I can’t believe she isn’t anymore.
To be taken from her children, what a cruel thing.
Good night, Cristi. May flights of angels…
Here’s a guestbook set up for Cristi’s family to read.
I’ve posted in it - have you?
Thank you hajario
I never met Persephone in real life, but I remember seeing a few of her posts. As Cosmopolitan said, if I’m this torn up inside, I can’t even imagine how Eutychus and her family must feel. The thoughts and prayers of a great many people, including mine, go out to you.
No, no, no. Nobody who radiated such full-spectrum life should be permitted to leave us so soon. I feel awful about this.
Cristi could make you feel like a see-you-every-day-for-lunch friend in thirty seconds. Seeing her was always one of the highlights of joining the assembled mob at Dopefests. She was warm and welcoming and a hell of a lot of fun.
My heart goes out to Euty and Tim and her kids and to all those who feel her absence.
We’ll miss you terribly, sweetie. For you, I’ll get that story finished. It just kills me that you’ll never get to read it.
I’m thinking of donating to the Epilepsy Foundation of Michigan in Cristi’s memory. There’s an online donation form here: https://www.epilepsyfoundation.org//local/michigan/Donationform.cfm?
… if you’re interested.
Let’s have some good come out of this terrible loss.
I have received a note from Cristi’s husband re the visitation and funeral arrangements.
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Hello Jenny
Here is the times for visitation and for the funeral services. Please pass
this along to everyone.
Visitation times
Sunday - 12:00 PM to 3:00 PM and 3:00 PM to 9:00 PM
Monday - 12:00 PM to 9:00 PM
Tuesday - 10:00 AM to 11:00 AM
Funeral services on Tuesday at 11:00 AM
I’d be very interested in posting to the Straight Dope Message Board,
although maybe not most immediately. I feel the need to interact with her
friends and share both joys and sorrows.
Cristi’s mom, and her aunts and uncles will get together with the kids,
myself, and a social worker tommorrow at noon to break the news to the kids
about their mama. Oh, this is going to be so hard! Pray hard - PLEASE -
just for the children!
Thank you so much for everything. I’m sure Cristi sends her love and thanks
from afar.
Tim Lamb
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I have removed the information re his screen name, which I offered to set up for him. It would be more appropriate for him to introduce himself to you on his terms and in his own time.
your humble TubaDiva
Administrator
As we remember Cristi and keep her family in our throughts and prayers, let’s not forget that, in addition to Johnzilla and Dianasaur, Cristi had another daughter, a girl now in her mid-teens whom Cristi gave to a loving couple in an open adoption. They were in frequent contact and enjoyed spending time together. This is a great loss to her as well; when I met her, she was a bright, well-adjusted girl who loved her birth mother, and I know this will not be easy for her.
If you are the praying type, please remember her as well when you pray for Cristi’s children.
I have no doubt Cristi will help you get through this. My thoughts are with you and the rest of your little family.
So sorry to hear 
My kids are about the same age as hers. My heart goes out to all who loved her.
Thank you for this information, Juniper200, as I did not know (or possibly remember) this. All of her children will be in my prayers tonight…again.
And thank you, Cajun Man, for that lovely picture of three of the loveliest ladies on our board. It will be how I remember Persephone from this point on.
Thanks for finding that, Cajun. That was about the happiest I’d ever seen Persephone, who was a pretty happy person already.
Eve, she was seriously walking three feet off the ground after meeting you.
My thoughts, prayers, and condolences to all of Persephone’s loved ones and friends.
I would like to make a suggestion, though I know nothing of how to do something like this, to set up a fund where We Dopers can make a monetary donation, however big or small, towards the future education of her children, John and Diana.
This is an incredible community to help out others in their time of need, perhaps we could set up something for them to remind them down the road just what their mom meant to our little corner of the World.
Just a Thought.
Thank you.
Miss you, 'Seph.
I am absolutely stunned. My thoughts and prayers are with her family,friends, and everyone whose life she made an impact on.
It has always been evident to me that many, many people loved Persephone. I never got to know her, really, except by reading her posts on the SDMB and in her LJ. It was always clear, though, that she was highly thought of by almost everyone.
Persephone challenged some of my firmest beliefs about right and wrong, moral and immoral, bad and good. I was never able to reconcile such an obviously good person with what I had always seen as a certain kind of absolutely bad behavior. I wish desperately now that I had found that within myself. I wish that I had gotten to know her and been better able to understand her situation. Because she taught me something about acceptance tonight.
When I went to LJ this evening, for the first time in months, I noticed something that felt like a punch in the gut. It brought tears to my eyes. Persephone had added me to her friends list.
While it may be, tragically, too late, I hope she somehow knew it when I added her to mine.
I feel like an incredibly huge asshat.
Euty, Tim, and especially her babies- I am so very sorry.