What A Legacy...
This obituary showed up in the Vallejo Times-Herald newspaper. It's already been removed from the paper's website, but I've seriously never seen anything like it. I can think of a few people I'd write this about. Read on. Seriously, you won't believe your eyes.
Dolores Aguilar, born in 1929 in New Mexico, left us on August 7, 2008. She will be met in the afterlife by her husband, Raymond, her son, Paul Jr., and daughter, Ruby.
She is survived by her daughters Marietta, Mitzi, Stella, Beatrice, Virginia and Ramona, and son Billy; grandchildren, Donnelle, Joe, Mitzie, Maria, Mario, Marty, Tynette, Tania, Leta, Alexandria, Tommy, Billy, Mathew, Raymond, Kenny, Javier, Lisa, Ashlie and Michael; great-grandchildren, Brendan, Joseph, Karissa, Jacob, Delaney, Shawn, Cienna, Bailey, Christian, Andre Jr., Andrea, Keith, Saeed, Nujaymah, Salma, Merissa, Emily, Jayci, Isabella, Samantha and Emily. I apologize if I missed anyone.
Dolores had no hobbies, made no contribution to society and rarely shared a kind word or deed in her life. I speak for the majority of her family when I say her presence will not be missed by many, very few tears will be shed and there will be no lamenting over her passing.
Her family will remember Dolores and amongst ourselves we will remember her in our own way, which were mostly sad and troubling times throughout the years. We may have some fond memories of her and perhaps we will think of those times too. But I truly believe at the end of the day ALL of us will really only miss what we never had, a good and kind mother, grandmother and great-grandmother. I hope she is finally at peace with herself. As for the rest of us left behind, I hope this is the beginning of a time of healing and learning to be a family again.
There will be no service, no prayers and no closure for the family she spent a lifetime tearing apart. We cannot come together in the end to see to it that her grandchildren and great-grandchildren can say their goodbyes. So I say here for all of us, GOOD BYE, MOM.
How sad is that? I seriously hope that when I die, my obituary is never written like this one. She must've been such a horrible woman. If you doubt the authenticity of it, you will find out here that it is, indeed, real. And anyone who has a copy of that newspaper will find that it is worth keeping for that reason only. It may be worth something someday because you'll probably never see something like that again.
Shockingly brutal, it is.
Dolores Aguilar, born in 1929 in New Mexico, left us on August 7, 2008. She will be met in the afterlife by her husband, Raymond, her son, Paul Jr., and daughter, Ruby.
She is survived by her daughters Marietta, Mitzi, Stella, Beatrice, Virginia and Ramona, and son Billy; grandchildren, Donnelle, Joe, Mitzie, Maria, Mario, Marty, Tynette, Tania, Leta, Alexandria, Tommy, Billy, Mathew, Raymond, Kenny, Javier, Lisa, Ashlie and Michael; great-grandchildren, Brendan, Joseph, Karissa, Jacob, Delaney, Shawn, Cienna, Bailey, Christian, Andre Jr., Andrea, Keith, Saeed, Nujaymah, Salma, Merissa, Emily, Jayci, Isabella, Samantha and Emily. I apologize if I missed anyone.
Dolores had no hobbies, made no contribution to society and rarely shared a kind word or deed in her life. I speak for the majority of her family when I say her presence will not be missed by many, very few tears will be shed and there will be no lamenting over her passing.
Her family will remember Dolores and amongst ourselves we will remember her in our own way, which were mostly sad and troubling times throughout the years. We may have some fond memories of her and perhaps we will think of those times too. But I truly believe at the end of the day ALL of us will really only miss what we never had, a good and kind mother, grandmother and great-grandmother. I hope she is finally at peace with herself. As for the rest of us left behind, I hope this is the beginning of a time of healing and learning to be a family again.
There will be no service, no prayers and no closure for the family she spent a lifetime tearing apart. We cannot come together in the end to see to it that her grandchildren and great-grandchildren can say their goodbyes. So I say here for all of us, GOOD BYE, MOM.
How sad is that? I seriously hope that when I die, my obituary is never written like this one. She must've been such a horrible woman. If you doubt the authenticity of it, you will find out here that it is, indeed, real. And anyone who has a copy of that newspaper will find that it is worth keeping for that reason only. It may be worth something someday because you'll probably never see something like that again.
Shockingly brutal, it is.
posted by eatmisery @ 8/20/2008 06:00:00 AM
4 Comments:
At 12:41 PM, August 20, 2008,
Erin said…
Oh my. That is just terrible.
Not the obituary itself. No, that was probably very healing for them.
What is terrible is that person would wound her family so badly that her children wouldn't even want to really say good bye.
I wish them all peace because I think they need it.
At 9:59 PM, August 21, 2008,
Amanda said…
wow. omg. you know, there are times when people might think stuff along these lines, but it's amazing that it was necessary to publicize this kind of anger. Maybe I'm too old fashioned. I don't know too many people who didn't grow up in a dysfunctional family, but out of respect for the dead, is it really necessary to go that far? Don't get me wrong, I pray that family closure and peace, but couldn't they just publish her death, and some blurb about "services not scheduled" or something?
At 1:41 PM, August 24, 2008,
HoosierGirl5 said…
Wow. A very sad and angry person wrote that obituary. What a life they must have had.
J.
At 12:03 PM, August 26, 2008,
sue said…
What is sad is there are too many people out there who DESERVE an obituary like this...
I know at least one person in my own family.
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