Bad news I'm afraid

[TxRad]

I just received this by PM. I posted a copy in the AH:


Last Message adetaildiva

TXRad,

This is Val, Diva's Husband. Diva Had an accident Monday night and passed on. I am computer illiterate and having my neighbor type this up. Can you contact whomever needs to be about her editing stories and let them know. I am sorry and I know yall were close, maybe someday I will learn how to use this thing. Thank you and I will have him check back in a few days.

VAL


I am crying now.

 

[LadyCibelle]

RIP Diva

I don't know what to say, I don't know how to feel. I didn't know her very well but what I did, I liked very much.

She was sweet, nice, kind and most importantly, honest.

My condolences and thoughts to her family.

 

[CopyCarver]

Terrible news indeed.

It's been several months since I last heard from Diva but she was very excited then about doing some professional editing as well as her volunteer editing here.

As Lady C says, Diva was a special person - kind, honest, with a wonderful sense of humor.

Rest in peace, Lydia. You are missed.

 

[jakebarnes06]

Lyd—one of a kind

Adetaildiva, Lydia (or Lyd), was not only an excellent editor, but a good friend and a remarkable woman.

I remember the first time she edited a story for me. Her initial return email flattered me about what a wonderful story I'd written and mentioned that she'd made only a few suggestions on the attached edited version. I opened that attachment with great anticipation only to find bright green content suggestions and bright red punctuation marks all over the place. Her suggestions, of course, were excellent, but I just couldn't accept all those commas she thought I should use. I immediately dug into both Strunk and White and the Purdue OWL grammar site. Damn it, but she was right about every one of her red marks.

Lyd and I became friends and talked many times. She was a happy person who, in spite of being afflicted with the physically debilitating Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease, held down a full-time job, loved her husband very much, and lived a full life. One needs only to read her Lit profile to understand both this woman's wonderfully subtle humor and the way she lived her life.

I laughed with Lyd last week when I chatted with her. Today when I opened her husband's PM, I shed a tear. The world, her beloved Texas, and Lit community all are lesser places without her.

 

[Tymeless]

I didn't know her but It makes me sad anytime I hear something like this. If she was an editor it hurts the entire lit community deeply and my condolences go out to her friends and family.

 

[Foxee Browne]

I know I'll miss her, we had just begun to work together. She knew her stuff, plus was an awesome lady, friendly and smart. What a loss to us all.

 

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[snoopercharmbrights]

A thought

Perhaps we should all vote for Adetaildiva in the editor award, if only to remember how much she gave to all of us, and how much we will miss her.

 

[TxRad]

I just spent the last hour on the phone with her husband Val. Please check the fourth page of this same thread in the AH. I gave him the link to that thread to read.

Thank you all for your posts from him and from me.

Tx