One of the habits, I guess you would say, of living in a small town is that from the time you are a wee child you are genetically programmed to pick up the local newspaper in order to read several items religiously: The arrests and the obituaries. You just never know when the little kid you used to babysit will get arrested for dealing cocaine (this actually happened to me!) or your former classmate oh, say, is attacked and eaten by a grizzly bear (also actually happened to me...see The Grizzly Man movie...but that's another post entirely). Anyway, a religious reader of local interest items, (ahem!) I glanced at the obituaries this morning and found such a precious little gem of an obit:
Evelyn Louise Storey
EVELYN LOUISE STOREY "Hoochie Mama" Merrillville, Indiana Age 87 passed away in her granddaughter's arms with her grandson and their spouses at her bedside, February 20, 2006 at Colonial Nursing and Rehab.
Hoochie Mama??? I LOVE it! The obituary went on to say,
On June 30, 1935 she married Alvin "Did" Homer Storey, a marriage that lasted 60 years and produced three children.
I told "Did" (aka H) he may want to take note...THIS is how I want to be remembered:
She enjoyed plastic cross-stitch, games (cards, dice, cribbage), word-search or crosswords, fishing, traveling and was known to be "The Master Teller of Dirty Jokes." She delighted in performing in the annual talent show put on by the senior residents of her Ahepa Phase # 3 Apartment complex, where she resided for 8 years.
"Did" was not impressed that I inquired about tickets for the annual talent show at the Ahepa Phase #3 Apartment complex, nor did he appreciate my asking to be called Hoochie Mama from this point on. "Did" did, however, enjoy the dirty joke I told as we ate our oatmeal.
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Totally awesome. That is so great that Hoochie Mama lived to be 87, all those dirty jokes that didn't have to go untold. I too love reading obituaries and the police beat. My favorite police beats involve petty theft, like of deodorant and such.
I LOVE it! Someone should send that to Jay Leno. I get my hometown newspaper too and never miss the obits and police blotter. All the small towns are the same. I like reading about the meth busts and "assault" charges.
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