I'm at my parents house and pulled out the March, 1996 issue of Nintendo Power with Super Mario RPG on the front. In the Epic Center section they have a column titled "Enix Fans Speak Out". One of the quotes is from Edith Jeter of Puyallup, WA. She says,



I did a quick internet search of her name and location and found her obituary. She died January 3rd of this year. Dragon Quest VI comes out February 14th, 2011. She waited 15 years and.... Kinda tragic.


Her obituary which can be found at http://obits.dignitymemorial.com/dignity-memorial/obituary-print.aspx?n=Edith-Jeter&lc=2629&pid=147602253&mid=4501742 says,


Update: You can read the Nintendo Power column here: http://media.earthboundcentral.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/earthbound_translation.jpg

Apparently they were talking about Edith Jeter over at Earthbound Central as well: http://earthboundcentral.com/2010/12/earthbounds-translation-cost-50000/

Edith lives on in the SNES RPG community.

I hope she emulated.

i hope she emulated too.. this is so sad D':

What a shame. May she rest in peace.

I blame the Square-Enix merger for porting VI.

Send this to Tiny Cartridge.

Beat me to it

wow, that's sad.

Sweet! Tiny Cartidge picked up the story:

http://tinycartridge.com/post/3006063488/dragon-quest-vis-english-release-a-month-too-late-for

Congrats bro! You got your name mentioned!