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Warms the heart, doesn't it?
Above obit found in the Times-Herald Napa/Sonoma. Oh, and be sure to read the guestbook here. (Thanks Jameth!)
UPDATE I: Cruel obit page pulled late Sunday afternoon. Huh. Fake obit at Vallejo Times-Herald? Change of heart? Trickery? Stay tuned.
UPDATE II: It's real, folks. Read more about it here.
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refreshingly honest.
in the end, maybe that was her gift to them.
She brought nine children into life, and not one word of gratitude for the gift of life from any one of them. She had no hobbies, no interests? Giving birth to and raising nine children leaves one a great deal of time to become a fully rounded human being. She probably WAS a bitch. But I remind you all that bitches are created, not born. Someone somewhere was probably bad to HER -- and she passed it on. That's how these things work.
Perhaps if birth control had been used more judiciously she would have become a different person. Perhaps not. We'll never know because it wasn't used judiciously and nine children is a heavy burden to bear. Not one word of thanks for what was undoubtedly a lot of work and hard life.
Love is a two way street.
I assume Dolores wasn't a fan of wire hangers as well.
You say a lot of bitchy things too. It's not as funny as you think it is. Sarcastic people never see themselves as mean, but they are.
Sounds like they all take after their Mother.
Hope they get the mental help she never did.
Wasn't it Harry Cohn, the legendary movie producer, who said "Give the people what they want, and they'll turn out for it." There was huge turnout at his funeral.
I wonder if those who run the afterlife party are looking forward to her arrival or going to send her spirit back to the family in the form of numerous ungrateful children.
fake.
The guest book link doesn't work anymore! Dammit, I wanna know what readers of that paper had to say!
From the guest book (before they took it down):
August 16, 2008 Everyone brings joy into lives.... Some when they arrive, Others when they leave. May your family begin to heal and may your presence here be all for naught. - Our prayers are with your family - Mary Magdeline
And:
August 17, 2008 Good things come to those who wait. Congratulations to the family and all the best for the future. Ota Benga (NY, NY)
What we don't have beings said might say volumes. She could have been a physically abusive mother. Or she may have sexually abused her children, or stood by while they were sexually abused by another family member. She may have been crazy and unwilling to seek professional help and preferred to wallow in her misery. Frankly, I don't want to know. If it was bad enough that her family made a public statement about it, well, it may have been a lot worse than "Mom was a bitch."
I can totally relate.
I agree with megang.
And if you don't want people to talk badly about you when you're dead, don't be a bitch/asshole when you're alive.
If I cared enough to bother I would write a similar obituary for some of my family members. Luckily for them, I stopped giving a shit a long time ago.
As for "she gave them the gift of life," please spare me.
So this guy is walking down this road and he sees a big crowd gathered at some farm. Curious, he asks a guy in the crowd what's going on:
'Farmer's Brown's donkey just kicked his mother in law and she died."
"Well", says the man, "she must have had a lot of friends"
"No, we all want to buy her donkey!"
Thanks you thank you I'll be in the Tiki Room through Thursday...
bluecanary, indeed. It may just be a rumor but I've heard that just about anyone these days can spread their legs and bred. No licensing, permits or anything. It's madness I tell ya.
Wasn't this a Sopranos episode?
KARMA!
Eyeball:
I'm getting a little sick about hearing about the "gift of life" all children of all parents are supposed to be grateful for. If you want to be grateful for the gift of life, thank your deity. You don't owe your parents for their procreational activities. If you owe them for anything, you owe them for the nurturing, if they provided any.
I say this as a daughter who has changed her phone number and not given it to her parents, because they sucked out of me with their constant destructive behavior the life they supposedly gave me.
If a parents "gives the gift of life" to their children, it's not their right to ruin that life. Gratitude, my ass.
I have God to thank, not them, for life.
She will not be met in the "afterlife"
Dolores was mean and hateful, that's for sure. But she loved a Dirty Sanchez like nobody's business, and that's what I'll remember most about her. And that she didn't mind if her hair got a little "sticky". Sigh.
how very Christina Crawford.
HAHA, my aunt forwarded this to me, seems like it was written about my grandmother. Pretty sad other people had the monster we had in our family. And regarding afterlife, I'm sure there'll be a fight in hell to take over the reigns from my grandmother. Like I told my aunt and sung when I found out my grandmonster had passed, seems like it's time for another chorus "Ding Dong the witch is dead!!! LOL
Wow, that could have been written for my grandmother.
I will fully admit that I will not shed a tear when she dies. (Though I fear she will live forever.)