# TubaDiva has passed away **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 3, 2020, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tubadiva-has-passed-away/914121 "2020-07-03T00:59:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2020, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tubadiva-has-passed-away/914121/61 "2020-07-03T02:20:17Z")
Speechless and heartbroken ---
**Author:** ![Catamount](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/catamount/32/2840_2.png) [@Catamount](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Catamount)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2020, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tubadiva-has-passed-away/914121/62 "2020-07-03T02:21:38Z")
Oh no! She was one of the cornerstones of the SDMB! Vaya con Dios, TubaDiva. Thanks for all you did for us. ---
**Author:** ![VOW](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/vow/32/3043_2.png) [@VOW](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VOW)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2020, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tubadiva-has-passed-away/914121/63 "2020-07-03T02:25:07Z")
The Dope grieves. ~VOW ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2020, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tubadiva-has-passed-away/914121/64 "2020-07-03T02:26:02Z")
I’m so sorry to hear this. The board would not be what it is without her efforts, and it will not be the same going forward. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2020, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tubadiva-has-passed-away/914121/65 "2020-07-03T02:27:05Z")
Thank you for your friendship, your support, your guidance, your wonderful hospitality when I visited Chicago, your sense of humor, and your tolerance of my many quirks. I cannot find the words to say how I feel right now. ---
**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2020, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tubadiva-has-passed-away/914121/66 "2020-07-03T02:27:23Z")
\*\* weeping \*\* You were the soul of the board. You and Lynn led us out of the land of AOL and created the new promised land, our own web space. I feel bad for taking you for granted. You were always here. ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2020, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tubadiva-has-passed-away/914121/67 "2020-07-03T02:28:11Z")
Oh, no. ---
**Author:** ![Airman\_Doors\_USAF](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e36b37/32.png) [@Airman\_Doors\_USAF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Airman_Doors_USAF)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2020, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tubadiva-has-passed-away/914121/68 "2020-07-03T02:29:49Z")
I’m stunned, in the truest sense of the word. ---
**Author:** ![zoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zoid/32/336_2.png) [@zoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoid)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2020, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tubadiva-has-passed-away/914121/69 "2020-07-03T02:29:53Z")
I just stunned. All I can say is Thank you Tuba for, well…being Tuba. You are already sorely missed. ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2020, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tubadiva-has-passed-away/914121/70 "2020-07-03T02:30:46Z")
Oh, no. I’m so sorry to hear this. ---
**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2020, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tubadiva-has-passed-away/914121/71 "2020-07-03T02:33:45Z")
I’m having a very, very difficult time processing this. Thank you, Jenny, for everything. My most heartfelt condolences to her family. ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2020, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tubadiva-has-passed-away/914121/72 "2020-07-03T02:34:13Z")
Holy crap! I always found her to be fair, reasonable, good-humored, and of course, highly capable. We’ve lost our Team Mom. ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2020, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tubadiva-has-passed-away/914121/73 "2020-07-03T02:35:20Z")
> [@Kent\_Clark](#): > > Holy crap! I always found her to be fair, reasonable, good-humored, and of course, highly capable. We’ve lost our Team Mom Our den mother. ---
**Author:** ![nelliebly](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nelliebly/32/5422_2.png) [@nelliebly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nelliebly)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2020, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tubadiva-has-passed-away/914121/74 "2020-07-03T02:36:48Z")
Stunned and grief-stricken. She was so kind to me. I admired and appreciated her endless patience. ---
**Author:** ![Aspenglow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspenglow/32/76_2.png) [@Aspenglow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspenglow)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2020, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tubadiva-has-passed-away/914121/75 "2020-07-03T02:39:16Z")
I am new here compared to so many but was so impressed with her equanimity, boundless good humor, intelligence and kind nature as she worked with such a diverse and bossy community. Her loss here feels devastating. Tears shed for a good person I never met, but who nevertheless touched my life deeply. ---
**Author:** ![manhattan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/manhattan/32/7_2.png) [@manhattan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/manhattan)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2020, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tubadiva-has-passed-away/914121/76 "2020-07-03T02:39:36Z")
This is just horrible. I don’t even know how to process it. She loved all you guys, you know. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2020, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tubadiva-has-passed-away/914121/77 "2020-07-03T02:41:25Z")
She was so very nice to me and she had no reason to be. I determined by that she must have just been a very nice person. ---
**Author:** ![MsRobyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/90ced4/32.png) [@MsRobyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsRobyn)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2020, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tubadiva-has-passed-away/914121/78 "2020-07-03T02:44:23Z")
Airman texted me the news and to say I’m floored doesn’t begin to describe it. The Dope won’t be the same without her. ---
**Author:** ![Rasa](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rasa/32/3578_2.png) [@Rasa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rasa)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2020, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tubadiva-has-passed-away/914121/79 "2020-07-03T02:46:03Z")
Damn. Nice new place you got here. Sorry I’m visiting under such sad circumstances. Rest well, Tuba. ---
**Author:** ![Una\_Persson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/una_persson/32/346_2.png) [@Una\_Persson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Una_Persson)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2020, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tubadiva-has-passed-away/914121/80 "2020-07-03T02:46:27Z")
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. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tubadiva-has-passed-away/914121.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tubadiva-has-passed-away/914121.md?page=5)