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A Minnesota newspaper pulled a paid obituary from its website Tuesday that detailed a deceased woman’s affair with her husband’s brother and accused her of abandoning her two children.
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The obituary for Kathleen Dehmlow [Schunk] appeared in the Redwood Falls Gazette on Monday. The newspaper took down the obituary amid an outcry from readers who felt it was in poor taste.
General Manager Lisa Drafall told the Minneapolis Star Tribune that Dehmlow’s family paid for the obituary but declined to say more. Legacy.com also had the obituary and stated it would “review its standards and not just lean on the newspapers that feed it.”
A relative told the Star Tribune that the allegations in the obituary are true but that there is more to the story.
The truth hurts sometimes.
This article about the snowflake readers pissed off over someone evidently paying for a vengeful obituary kind of reminds me of my own experience with my father.
When my father died back in 2002 we had not spoken once since 1981- 21 years. I think my calling his second wife a bitch to her face may have had something to do with it. The visitation and funeral weren’t announced in the newspaper and his second wife and her family put him in the ground real quick; it got back to me they were scared that my sister or I would show up at the funeral.
Anyhow, about three years later his second wife went belly up herself. I’ll never forget what my mother had to say about it. She said,” You know, I think it’s funny that I’ve outlived both of those fucking assholes.” Mom is now 84 years old and we still laugh about that!
More people would probably commit candor if they weren’t trying to protect their kids. I’m sure a lot of wives aren’t entirely unhappy that their fat, hairy, stinky, snoring, drank-too-much, opinionated husband died and left them free as a bird with all the money. But you don’t want to say that when your kids are crying and gazing at the dead SOB in the casket. Just get him buried, then it’s off to Naples to buy that condo he never wanted.
Not saying I’m above something like that but anyway you cut it, it’s sad someone has to carry such bitterness over so many years. As CS&N sang…..”time we have wasted on the way”……
I’m here in Mpls. The “Start & Tribune” is called the “Minneapolis Red Star”. It’s an awful newsrag. There’s very little news, mostly “human interest”. They just don’t publish news they don’t like.
The faggots and people who want to close all the city streets for biking are about the only ones reading it.
dm-tu dat!!! if I had a dog or cat the queer tribune isn’t worth
putting under them.
Checkout the Salina Kansas paper if you can get it online. The virtue signaling is so thick that you will think a fog rolled in. Formerly thought the Kansas City Star rag was as worthless as a newspaper could be, but the Salina paper leaves them in the dust. Biased stories, twisting of facts, character assassination, outright lies, virtue signalling thicker than the tartar sauce on a McD fish sandwich; they got it all.
Even though Salina is a relatively small city, 48K, their newspaper would provide really stiff competition for the gold medal in the national contest, “How Crappy a Paper can you Publish While Still Keeping Readers”.
Carrying hate and anger for years is a waste of your time and emotional energy. If you are wronged, either do something about it immediately or forget it.
Most of the people that I hated for years weren’t worth remembering for more than five minutes, except as example of bad behavior that I want to avoid. Worthless shits who either enjoyed creating pain for others or were so self centered they refused to understand what they were doing wrong. If they were asked now, years later, they would still not admit they were wrong. I don’t have any more time to waste on stupid, cruel people.
I have been a mean, inconsiderate oaf myself, would like to get some forgiveness for that, so in turn I suppose I should forgive others who have sinned against me. Took me years in most cases to realize what I had done wrong, and feed bad about it. No sense agonizing over it. Can’t go back 30, 40, 50 years to fix what I did.
I do enjoy a really good, vindictive obituary. Not the first one I have read. I wonder how preachers justify to themselves lying at funerals. Saying some worthless shit was really a great guy, good to his family, and loved by all.
I think this is great advice. For years I had resentment and strong dislike for a family member. It took a long time but I decided to drop them like a stone. My thinking has become much more clear.
Especially when that family member thinks that you have “Bank” tattooed on your forehead…..
Hear you. “The Hard Luck Brother In Law”. This guy fucked me for 10 years. I finally told him it was gonna be cheaper for me to see him gone. He never asked for another ‘effin dime.
My dad’s uncle was an undertaker. He told of many times wifebeaters would die and the widow wanted the nicest casket and funeral to save face. He would tell them that they would only get the cheapest casket and funeral from him as hew knew what they were like. He had a sick sense of humor. Told of attaching two funnels to a garden hose and speaking from another room into viewing room and freak out relatives and friend visiting the deceased. When I would ever meet him as a kid. He would hold a quarter in his hand as I would shake hands and crush mine telling me that I had earned the handshake when passing the quarter to me.
The old joke about the woman who bought a $50,000.00 memorial stone.
It was 5 carats.
Now remains can be made into a fake diamond.
When I’m wronged and if I did something about it right then, then there would be people full of bullet holes as well as the people standing behind them. (You know large caliber pistol slugs tend to over penetrate.) However there is a thing called karma and it is real. It is real satisfying to see the guilty culprits get karma real good while you happen to be a bystander while the whole drama unfolds. It happens every time.
Hard for me to judge but if you don’t want someone to give you a terrible obituary, don’t do terrible things.
Not a sermon, just a thought.
Hell is truth seen too late.
By their actions you will know them.
Reminds me of my favorite headstone,
“Here lies Lester Moore.
4 slugs from a 44.
No Less. No More.”
Amen.