On Monday, Aug. 18, 2025, the world became a significantly less interesting and funny place with the passing of Jonathan Lynn Paulette, 57, after a lengthy battle with cancer.
A native of Urbanna, and a long-time resident of Charlottesville, Jon’s biography reads like something out of Hemingway. He was educated at Woodberry Forest School in Madison County and the University of Richmond. At times in his life he worked as a dockmaster at the Tides Inn, a freelance motorsports journalist, communications director at International Auto Parts, and, for the last 13 years of his life, as a consequential and influential writer and editor at Crutchfield Corporation. Possessed of a sharp wit, a deep, refined (and sometimes sarcastic) sense of humor, and an enviable natural talent for writing, Jon left his mark everywhere he went.
No stranger to suffering, Jon maintained a passion through his life for the Washington Nationals and Crystal Palace FC, and found it a minor miracle that he lived to see the Nats win the World Series and Crystal Palace finally win their first ever FA cup.
