Talk:Shona Jackson

Dates?

Shona's date of death is listed here as October 16, 2011, but there is a quote announcing it cited as from a 1992 zine. Could the 2011 date be from a much later remembrance post, or is there another source? --sparc 02:17, 16 June 2021 (UTC)

FWIW I recall my friends Steve and Judy sometime in the very early 90s discussing providing her with a headstone because she didn't have one. (Steve and Judy should be known to Tucson fandom back then, I'd love to find out what happened to them.) --Catblack (talk) 03:06, 16 June 2021 (UTC)

This is perhaps a bit of an unorthodox approach, but genealogical research might resolve this question. Death records from 30+ years ago are public in a lot of jurisdictions. And then there's FindAGrave.com and BillionGraves.com, sites that catalogue peoples' resting places. I found a record on BillionGraves.com for a woman of this name who died in 1990 and is buried in Arizona. The name is in quotes on her headstone, along with what was presumably her legal name. That potentially poses a privacy issue and so I'm refraining from posting a direct link out of caution. Night Rain (talk) 11:26, 16 June 2021 (UTC)

The "Book of Love" link says: "In the eighties, Shona died, way too early." Which would make the 1992 zine mention valid. It would also fit with the headstone bit, even though that was "very early 90s," as that may have happened shortly after? It is also possible that the "Book of Love" quote is not correct. --MPH (talk) 12:46, 16 June 2021 (UTC) Added: I think I narrowed it down with the Sue Frank memory I just added. --MPH (talk) 12:59, 16 June 2021 (UTC)

The date of death for the record I found is from March 1990. That's just three months out of the '80s. It's normal to forget exact dates after two or three decades. Especially when one's memories involve a transitional period in history. 1990 was a lot more like the late '80s culturally than the rest of the '90s. Like, you don't remember if the calendar said "1988" or "1992," you remember whether people had big hair or ripped jeans. Night Rain (talk) 13:27, 16 June 2021 (UTC)

Thanks everyone! Glad to have the dates cleared up and to see the very nice new memory quote. --sparc 00:56, 17 June 2021 (UTC)