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Janet McDonald   

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Harlem Prep

Vassur

Columbia

NYU

Paris University

Daughter

Sister

Cousin

Auntee

Great Auntee

International Lawyer

Professor

Historian

Writer

Teacher

English Lanuage

Spanish Language

French Language

World Traveler

 

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April 14
April 14
My dear Janet,
I miss you so much
Alots been going on these past years. However Starlett is with you now and as God saw fit to be that as her ashes lay right next to your it brings some solas. My heart will always embrace yours.
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April 13
April 13
4/11/2024
Défier la défaite! Deep fry de feet! ❤️
April 11
April 11
Thank you to Janet’s family for the lovely posts, pictures, videos. These years seem to speed up.
August 11, 2023
August 11, 2023
Ms. McDonald:

Just a tribute from someone you never met. But I read your book and heard your interview on THIS AMERICAN LIFE. You will never be forgotten!

T.W.
August 10, 2023
August 10, 2023
Thinking about you all the time….
Sadly missing you but always a grin/laugh comes about- filling my mind with joyful memories that will Never die. My heart holds you forever & I Love you always,
Checker Girls forever
August 10, 2023
August 10, 2023
Janet, time stopped for you so you stayed young while we all keep aging. I picture you laughing & getting a kick out of that.
August 10, 2023
August 10, 2023
Oh Janet how I miss you. As our family meets up in heaven, it gives me hope that we will be together again. Take care of Starlett. One day we will all be together again. ❤️
April 13, 2023
April 13, 2023
Ms. McDonald, I never met you. But I am your brother from 40 Projects in Queens. I read your book and I am going to listen to your THIS AMERICAN LIFE segment again. RIP.
April 13, 2023
April 13, 2023
Auntie, I miss you and love you always. I think about you daily. Checker girls forever! Watch over my ⭐️.

Love,
Taheena
April 13, 2023
April 13, 2023
Auntie, I miss you and love you always. I think about you daily. Checker girls forever! Watch over ⭐️.

Love,
Tasha
April 12, 2023
April 12, 2023
Paix et amour ma sœur.❤️
April 11, 2023
April 11, 2023
Janet I miss you so much. I did realize 16 years has gone by. I know you and Starlett are having a good together. She always wanted to be with her auntie, now she is.
April 12, 2022
April 12, 2022
I will listen to the THIS AMERICAN LIFE segment again, for you.
April 11, 2022
April 11, 2022
Ma Soeur, tu es toujours dans mon coeur.
April 11, 2022
April 11, 2022
15 years ago? Thank you for this site. Gone too soon is so true. 
August 13, 2021
August 13, 2021
August 2021. Time flies and “defy defeat” (deep fry de feet) is now an anthem that once was shared between us and remains as a defiant challenge to the living. Live on Janet. I say your name. Nmrk❤️
August 10, 2021
August 10, 2021
JANET  MY DEAR SISTER OMG I MISS YOU SO MUCH  I CONTINUE TO HIGH LIGHT YOUR AMAZING LIFE PS 287
anet I love you you were the most wonderful fun loving spirit God loaned us. We give God the praise fir you. You left a great leagacy. We will never be the same you got you wish. Mother and daddy 
August 10, 2021
August 10, 2021
Hey Aunti. Heavenly birthday today
This is your Checker girl Tasha. I miss you so much.
I was going through pics of you in gramma room. Thinking about you both.  But I know you and gramma flo and grandad all together now watching over us.

See you again one day. I love you dearly, always,

Taheesha, aka Taheena. Lol
August 10, 2021
August 10, 2021
Sincere condolences to family, friends, colleagues, fans. No matter how much time passes we’re still saying, “Janet, come back. One more book. One more interview. One more smile.”
August 10, 2021
August 10, 2021
Rest in Peace, Ms. McDonald. I will listen to your story from THIS AMERICAN LIFE again this week.
April 19, 2021
April 19, 2021
Oh my sister. Janet I miss you so much. Seems like yesterday you were here maling us crack up. I love you. Your Checkers girls are all grown up now all in their 40's. You"d be so proud. Thank you for being a great example for them.

I met a childhood friend of yours, and now we are best of friends. I learned even more about your early childhood years.

Well Sis, until we meet again!!!
April 11, 2021
April 11, 2021
To my aunt Janet McDonald, from Checker girl to Checker girl!!!! We are all blessed and taking it one day at a time. Your 4 lil girls are awesome women and we are honored to share so many great memories of all of us together- that you created. You had a great hand in helping to raise us and we are better women because of it. We can’t ever think about you without a smile and a laugh coming through. That love and laughter come hand in hand, the McDonald way for sure!! Love you so much. Miss you forever and will one day see you again.
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April 11, 2021
April 11, 2021
Gone, but never forgotten. I am going to listen to your segment from "Americans in Paris" on THIS AMERICAN LIFE today.
December 9, 2020
December 9, 2020
Missing you soooooo much aunti.
Love
Checker Girl!
December 9, 2020
December 9, 2020
Like may others I just listened to your story on This American Life. I was aghast to find you had passed. You accomplished so much in your short life. If only words can express how sad your loss makes me.
Robbie Farmer 
November 27, 2020
November 27, 2020
I just listened to your story on This American Life. It was wonderful.

The world misses you.
August 11, 2020
August 11, 2020
Hey auntie it’s keeba I’m a day late but I remembered you yesterday and everyday I love and miss you so much Happy Heavenly Birthday please keep watching over me and the family give grandma a kiss for me, I know she made your favorite apple pie lol as for me I’m hanging in their just dealing with a lot of stuff but god is good love till we meet again.❤️
August 10, 2020
August 10, 2020
My friend you are missed each day ! We celebrate your life always! Resting Well!
April 12, 2020
April 12, 2020
I will always bring your story to the world, I miss you so much LOL you got mother and daddy to your self, you did amazing with Kevin and thank you. You are a inspiration to all who hear your story. I pray and love my family I wish it was like it was when you were alive, I feel like a only child trying to fit. You would be so proud of your checker girls S.I. P
April 12, 2020
April 12, 2020
missing you, never forgetting you auntie! CheckerGirls still here holding us down. We love you always and forever. #keebatashtoystar
April 11, 2020
April 11, 2020
Auntie I miss you so much, it’s keeba checker girl number 1 lol, I so miss your silly spirit, we had a lot of good times, wow 13 yrs I love you and honor you, My last child was named after you Kayla Ann-Janet Page and guess what she wants to be, a lawyer love you and will always have you in my heart tell grandma I love and miss her too my BFF, I know she making you apple pies up in heaven. ❤️
April 11, 2020
April 11, 2020
Can't believe she was only in her early 50s. Life is crazy and not fair. 
April 11, 2020
April 11, 2020
Janet I miss you so much. I cant believe its been 13 years. Many of those years I just tricked myself in believing you were still in Paris and just wasn't able to come home. The world has changed so much. Mother, my BFF Val and many others! I guess its time for me to except that its time... I will always always love you. Forever Missed but Never Forgotten!!!
Deb
September 5, 2019
September 5, 2019
I just heard a podcast from NPR's THIS AMERICAN LIFE titled "Americans in Paris" and was saddened by Ira Glass' addendum, that you had passed away years earlier. It was so heartbreaking. But I immediately got PROJECT GIRL and read it. I am your de-facto brother, from a Queens project complex.  The only difference is that I attended school elsewhere and stayed stateside. But the writing, the activism, the challenges, the wariness of being a Black Intellectual...I hear you and I understand. Your music lives on, though you are gone!
July 21, 2019
July 21, 2019
I just heard an interview, a riotous, raucous, fun, sassy, smart interview of you on This American Life--I loved it, until Ira announced that you had passed away at age 53--what a tragedy, and yet what a life well lived, well defined, well thought-out and well analyzed. I am blessed to have known you through this one short interview, but you have made an indelible impression upon me. God bless you for all you did, all you went through, and to your family whom I'm sure holds you dear and misses you so.
April 12, 2019
April 12, 2019
I can’t believe yesterday made 12 years you been gone I miss you so much I love you check girl number 1 ❤️❤️❤️❤️
April 11, 2019
April 11, 2019
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April 11, 2019
April 11, 2019
Janet I know your heavenly time is awesome !!! Daddy and Mother lol you have they’ll to your self .. I love you so much , I wish I would have had more time with you .Such great memories . I will always celebrate you life. You left a great leagacy for those who think the can’t . I can allwats here your cagaling laughter !♥️♥️♥️ 12 years. I’m doing my best to help your Kevin . He loves you so much . S.I.P my middle sister .
April 11, 2019
April 11, 2019
Forever Missed is a beautiful website and much appreciated. It makes us feel as if Janet keeps reminding us each year that she is not gone. Her books, her life story--everything about her spirit stays with us. The tears that flow must be like a rain that she sends down to help cleanse our souls. Thank you to her loving family for this internet memorial site.
April 11, 2019
April 11, 2019
Happy heavenly birthday beautiful soul ❤️
August 10, 2018
August 10, 2018
I love and miss you so much I can’t believe you been gone for 11 years your #1 fan checkergirl #1 and my youngest who was named aft you is 11 yrs old Kayla Ann-Janet Page she read all your books you would be proud
August 10, 2018
August 10, 2018
Never forgotten...just took a photo of her books but not able to attach it...
August 10, 2018
August 10, 2018
What fond and fun memories I have. Janet my heart longs for you and rejoices at the same time. Yet another angel is with you; our Mother!! I will miss you forever. Until we meet again my dear Sister.
April 12, 2016
April 12, 2016
9 years have passed. I have a shelf of Janet's books. So I guess I have to read again. Her books for young people can also be for old people like me.
August 10, 2015
August 10, 2015
It's been over a year since I first read Janet's autobiography. I'm a total stranger to her family and her life, but I've never had something impact me so powerfully. I think of her story and her experiences often and tell other people about her. I'm high school teacher, and I tell my teenagers about her too. I want to bring her back so she can be with her family and friends. Just think what more she could have brought us as she got older!
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April 14
April 14
My dear Janet,
I miss you so much
Alots been going on these past years. However Starlett is with you now and as God saw fit to be that as her ashes lay right next to your it brings some solas. My heart will always embrace yours.
New
April 13
April 13
4/11/2024
Défier la défaite! Deep fry de feet! ❤️
April 11
April 11
Thank you to Janet’s family for the lovely posts, pictures, videos. These years seem to speed up.
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August 10, 2023
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April 11, 2019

Janet was brilliant even as a child. It was us 4 older children that had to wash dishes for a week. That was great , Daddy and mother let us know we would have a month off.             How ever Janet thought of way where she would never have to be a part of choirs. She asked me to do her dishes I laughed and said no.               My brother Laverte who at that time we didn’t get along.  She called me and whispered you wanna get Laverte back?   Forgetting about the dishes , I said yes!!! She said here’s an egg he’s sitting under the window , throw it on his head. I said no ima get in trouble . She said no one will know but me. So I threw it.  She laughed and putting up one eyebrow said “ I’m telling mother” no I cried . She said will you do my week of washing dishes ? I said YES. . 

Goes by so fast

August 10, 2017

She reached out to so many.  I have to thank this site for the reminder emails.  The years and days pass by quickly.  She was gone too soon.  But somehow is not gone. I don't really believe that.  I just think we don't understand.  

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