On Oct 19, 2016, DJ passed away at home surrounded by love and in peace after living 14 years with breast cancer. She is survived by her husband, Erskine Roberts, two daughters, Asha Gilbert and Imani Gilbert, her mother, Barbara, two brothers and wealth of loved friends.

Per her wishes, her ashes will travel with her beloved husband again to their favorite oceans of the world so that she may be one with the seas that she loved. Whenever you are at the beach next, think of her fondly and know that despite her medical adversity she ultimately knew a happiness founded in unconditional love that most never achieve so utterly & completely in life.

Her ardent desire was that you remembered the good times, her love for you and that you see her passing through the words of Canon Henry Scott Holland:

Death is nothing at all.
I have only slipped away to the next room.
I am I and you are you.
Whatever we were to each other,
That, we still are.

Call me by my old familiar name.
Speak to me in the easy way
which you always used.
Put no difference into your tone.
Wear no forced air of solemnity or sorrow.

Laugh as we always laughed
at the little jokes we enjoyed together.
Play, smile, think of me. Pray for me.
Let my name be ever the household word
that it always was.
Let it be spoken without effect.
Without the trace of a shadow on it.

Life means all that it ever meant.
It is the same that it ever was.
There is absolute unbroken continuity.
Why should I be out of mind
because I am out of sight?

I am but waiting for you.
For an interval.
Somewhere. Very near.
Just around the corner.

All is well.

In rememberance of her, please keep all cancer patients in your thoughts as, "They are still fighting; fight with them." (Lisa DJ Roberts)  and please donate to the following charities:

• Breast Cancer Research Foundation
• Cancer Research Institute
• Metastatic Breast Cancer Alliance (Any member)