A collection of lines from obituaries that enlarge our appreciation of the human spirit.
Monday, August 5, 2019
Thomas (Tomm) W.J. Mulligan, 'Exceptional Office Santa'
Tomm had spent the last few years lovingly caring for his wife, Iris, who has advanced dementia. He will be remembered by all who knew him, Except Iris of course. Everyone else though.
Labels:
dementia,
Lahey Clinic,
N.H.,
Nashua,
recliner,
Thomas Mulligan
Friday, July 12, 2019
Beatrice Castle Kirk Gray, 96, third-generation kama'aina
New London - Beatrice Castle Kirk Gray, 96, a noncombatant survivor of Pearl Harbor and Watergate, died July 10, 2019, at Fleet Landing in Atlantic Beach, Fla., where she lived for 30 years.
Friday, April 5, 2019
Tim Schrandt, 55, fought a nun
To his siblings’ amazement, he was actually able to snag a good woman, Cheryl Murray, and hold on to her for the past 13 years, and as far as we know restraints were not used.
Thursday, February 7, 2019
Sybil Marie Hicks, off to swim to the buoy and back
I finally have the smoking hot body I have always wanted … having been cremated.
(H/T Peter Elikann)
Thursday, January 17, 2019
Ossie Dahl, 64, retired for just a week
Ossie Dahl of Cortlandt Manor, NY would resent this obituary. Partially because he hates publicity, but mostly he'd be mad he left this world just one week into retirement.
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Cortlandt Manor,
NY,
Ossie Dahl,
retirement,
White Plains Hospital
Friday, November 23, 2018
Thomas Carroll, 77; answered the phone with ‘Salvation Army’
He couldn't start his day without reading the newspaper cover to cover, making sure he checked his lottery and power ball numbers, because that one time he almost hit it but was off by one number, and walking to the mailbox to check the mail. (H/T New Haven Register)
Friday, November 2, 2018
Jan Lynch, “an incredible woman”
She taught us that all the really good things in life are beyond the "Do Not Enter" signs. (H/T Peter Elikann
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