A Southwest Airlines flight attendant was found dead near a dumpster after falling from the 24th floor of a four-star hotel while on a layover in Hawaii, according to reports.
Jenny Lupton’s body was found by a hotel staffer early Thursday morning, with an investigation into her death ongoing, according to KWTV.
The 50-year-old mom from Oklahoma, who had worked as a Southwest flight attendant for 23 years, was staying at the four-star Hilton Hawaiian Village resort in Waikiki while on a layover – and medical examiners said it appeared she fell from her balcony on the 24th floor.
Lupton’s family were not contacted until 24 hours after her body was found and do not think she died by suicide.
“We strongly believe that she didn’t do this intentionally, and so that leads us to think it was either some kind of freak accident or someone harmed her,” Lupton’s sister, Tresa Lupton, told KFOR.
“We just want to know what happened. It doesn’t feel real.”
The stewardess — who leaves behind a 15-year-old son — had fun during the layover, sharing the details in messages with her sister.
“She just went out with one of her flight attendant friends, and they danced and had a good time,” Tresa Lupton said.
“She had just gotten a tattoo hours before this happened, and she messaged me. She said that when she gets back, she’s going to have it colored in because it was just the outline.
“We were the closest of sisters, and we were the same, but we were opposites, like yin and yang and, you know, black and white, peanut butter and jelly, two peas in a pod.”
Lupton, an avid gardener, was planning to get a tattoo of a hibiscus to honor her late father – and Tresa revealed the siblings were planning on living and traveling together.
“We got to travel together to San Diego, Colorado, several times,” Lupton’s niece, Hannah Lupton, said.
“She was very well versed in Hawaii; she loved Hawaii and had gone multiple times.”
Lupton has left behind her 15-year-old son, Kaleb, and tributes have poured in for the mom.
“She was truly the best aunt anyone could have asked for,” Hannah, who followed in her aunt’s footsteps by becoming a flight attendant, wrote online.
“She was the light of every party, the person who could make a room brighter simply by being in it.
“She had a personality that was impossible to forget, and if you knew her, you probably have a funny story about her.
“She was unforgettable. She was loved. She was the life of the party, the storyteller, the aunt everyone wishes they had. She will always be a part of me.”
Lupton was described as a “goddess of the sky” by her heartbroken pal Mel Haggard, who has since flown out to Hawaii.
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