A close friend of Southwest Airlines flight attendant Jenny Lupton described her as someone who “loved her friends fiercely and showed up for the people she loved.”
The Honolulu Police Department’s investigation is underway. Jenny, 50, was found dead at a hotel in Waikiki on August 20.
Hawaiian authorities told her family that she died from an apparent fall. A local medical examiner said her official cause and manner of death have yet to be determined.
Samuel also revealed that Jenny danced with a friend, got a tattoo she was excited about, texted her sister about the tattoo before dying just hours later . A GoFundMe has been launched to help Jenny’s family in the aftermath of the tragedy. “When my mom died unexpectedly, Jenny picked me up and drove me everywhere I needed to go. She took me to meet my family at the funeral home and then helped me find an outfit to bury my mom in. She kept me talking the entire time, asking me about my mom and helping me remember the good times when it would have been so easy to be consumed by the bad. She got me through one of the hardest days of my life simply by being Jenny,” she added. He added that as authorities learn more about Jenny’s case, the family is “hoping to gain access to critical evidence like camera footage and key-card access devices.
Samuel said that Jenny died under “unusual circumstances” after falling from the 24th floor of a hotel in Honolulu, but also stressed that the family has no reason to believe it was a suicide or that someone may have wanted to hurt her. “That said, she’s not from Honolulu. Without any evidence, any conclusion about Jenny’s death is speculation,” he said.
