James Foster, aka TreeHuginDruid passed away on August 15th. His sister let us know, and gave us permission to post the following,
TreeHuginDruid will always be one of the biggest names in the MQ2 scene. You'll see his work on macros, utilities, and changelogs not just here, but any related site from macroquest2 to mmobugs to guildchecker.com. He spent hours every day on Skype with Maskoi and ctaylor22 developing KissAssist, and still found time to answer support tickets for it on a system he designed and ran. THD simply loved helping people as his record here will attest, and he was always thankful to the folks who offered help or appreciated his work.
We talked in 2018 before he left to spend time with his 8 year old daughter, and I let him know that on every patch day we'll keep an eye out for the dev's toon. I am so sorry for his entire family, and also for this community.
Goodnight my friend,
To whom it may concern:
I am sorry that I do not know your actual names. This is Danielle, I am the sister of James H Foster II, whom was known to this community as TreeHuginDruid.
It was his wish that I make an announcement to the leaders of several community boards of gaming sites he was active in, to inform them of his passing.
James battle with cancer in several forms for the past 10 years of his life. When things started to look good and remission was achieved in one diagnosis, he was beset by tragedy by having it come back again.. sometimes in another form.
His last diagnosis in 2018 gave him 6 to 12 months of time left. He managed to push his time left in the world to the limit and lost his battle on August 15th 2019.
He left very explicit instructions for me to take over his email accounts associated with websites he belonged to and formally announce his passing.
He wanted to express his deep love and affection for this site especially since he stated this was the last major project he was involved with before taking time off to enjoy the remaining time he had.
James spent the last 18 months of his life exploring the world, spending quality time with his young daughter Marisa, and appreciating the wonders of life that he would be leaving behind.
He mentioned that his love for fantasy games ( a love he has had since childhood ) had defined his passions and goals for his spare time. His final words in regards to this site ( which he held most dear ) was that he had an incredible sense of pride and fulfillment being a part of this community and helping its members in the limit capacity he could.
He was a proud man, who dedicated his spare time for 20 years to numerous game related projects on many different platform and projects.. across several communities.
It would be a nice gesture if you could alert the community of his passing, and perhaps leave that notice available for others to see in the future. I know he would have appreciated it.
I love and miss my brother very much, so he entrusted me to take care of these final wishes for him.
Thank you kindly, Danielle Tammaro
TreeHuginDruid will always be one of the biggest names in the MQ2 scene. You'll see his work on macros, utilities, and changelogs not just here, but any related site from macroquest2 to mmobugs to guildchecker.com. He spent hours every day on Skype with Maskoi and ctaylor22 developing KissAssist, and still found time to answer support tickets for it on a system he designed and ran. THD simply loved helping people as his record here will attest, and he was always thankful to the folks who offered help or appreciated his work.
We talked in 2018 before he left to spend time with his 8 year old daughter, and I let him know that on every patch day we'll keep an eye out for the dev's toon. I am so sorry for his entire family, and also for this community.
Goodnight my friend,
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