On February 10, 2023, Jacob Mey died in Austin, Texas. His death is a great loss to the pragmatic community in general but especially to the International Pragmatics Association. He was a member of the IPrA Consulting Board from the beginning in 1986. He gave a keynote at the 4th International Pragmatics Conference in Kobe, Japan. On October 30, 2021, Jacob L. Mey received the IPrA ‘Award for Foundational Service in the Field of Pragmatics’.