Posted on January 2 at 2:49 p.m. (Suggest removal)

It's amazing how life can come at you way too fast. I was having an average day on Friday... getting ready to take the afternoon off and celebrate the coming of a new year with a nice four-and-a-half day weekend. Next thing I know, I'm thinking about JD's wife and how devastating it must be to loose the love of your life and try and move forward. By the end of my "half day", I'd felt like it had been a year.

I've tried for days now to come up with how to express my sadness, but JB probably says it here better than any of us ever could...

No words can ever express how it feels to be a fresh, green radio personality and walk into the studio where a "legend" is at work... The first time I met JD on a Saturday morning at WJVL, I remember him telling me:
1) I couldn't possibly be old enough to remember him from Z104 or Q106
2) that he is not by any means a legend, just a guy getting by

Well, I WAS old enough. And, if he's wasn't a legend, he is now. Not because of his career as a fantastic radio personality that had the talent to make you laugh at him and yourself (and even shake your head at how corny he was). But because he was a fantastic man that made you feel like a friend the first time you met him. Even after a number of years of not talking to him, I still feel like I lost a member of my family. (No one else will ever be allowed to call me "Jen Jen".)

The loss of JD Barber will be felt not only by the world of radio, but by people around the country who all will remember "Uncle JD" so fondly in their hearts.

God Bless JD and his family. (Buddy, Buddy... It'll be a struggle to adjust to radio without you.)

Jennifer Powers
Q106

On God Bless...J.D. Barber