One of the victims of the Santa Fe High School shooting was 63-year-old substitute teacher, mother, and grandmother, Cynthia Tisdale.

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Before she left her home that Friday, she left a note for her one of her kids: “I had to go meet teacher. I love you. I hope you feel better today. Love Mom. Left you breakfast.”

Around two hours later, a 17-year-old shooter opened fire inside the school’s art complex. Cynthia was among the 10 victims killed in the shooting.

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Cynthia lived in Dickinson, Texas, and was from Louisiana. She was a member of Anchor Bible Baptist Church in Pharr.

Cynthia is survived by her husband, three children, and 11 grandchildren.

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Leia Olinde, Cynthia’s niece, said her aunt was a substitute teacher for the art class on Friday morning.

“I have no words to describe the way I’m feeling now. She was another mother to me,” Leia shared in a Facebook post.

“She taught me how to cook and introduce me to family I otherwise would have never met. She went dress shopping with me and that I will cherish forever.”

 

Her son Recie Tisdale told the Washington Post, “She started substitute teaching because she loved to help children. She didn’t have to do it. She did it because she loved it.”

Cynthia’s brother-in-law John Tisdale wrote on a Facebook post which has now been set to private, “We never know when our death will come. Cynthia planned on one day retiring and being a full-time grandmother. It will never happen.”

Cynthia worked two jobs to help with her family’s bills. Her husband, William Recie Tisdale, is homebound with an “incurable lung disease.”

She was a paralegal for 22 years, her husband shared. “She was a good woman, she watched out for me,” William said.

Doctors had given Cynthia’s husband 12 to 18 months to live after he was diagnosed with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, according to a GoFundMe page created in March.

Family members set up the page to help raise money for his stem cell treatment. He was also denied a lung transplant.

After news of Cynthia’s tragic death in the shooting, hundreds of people donated money to her husband’s campaign, helping them exceed their initial goal of $30,000.

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The money raised helped the family with the funeral costs, bills, the stem cell treatment, and even the possibility of a lung transplant with another doctor.

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“The amount of love and generosity our family and father is receiving is unimaginable,” Recie Tisdale shared.

“I’m sure Cynthia is rejoicing in heaven knowing her death may have saved her husband of 47 years.”

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