{"id":615,"date":"2008-04-18T14:28:39","date_gmt":"2008-04-18T21:28:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rynosoft.com\/blog\/?p=615"},"modified":"2008-04-22T20:08:02","modified_gmt":"2008-04-23T03:08:02","slug":"ida-mae-russell-sills-rest-in-peace-and-laughter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rynosoft.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/ida-mae-russell-sills-rest-in-peace-and-laughter","title":{"rendered":"Ida Mae Russell Sills: Rest in Peace (and laughter)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Various sites on the internet are proclaiming this to be the best obituary ever written<\/a>. Here’s a choice excerpt:<\/p>\n

Ida developed a cold that progressed into pneumonia. Now Ida was a smoker. She said “to quit smoking well that’s easy. I ought to know. I have done it a thousand times” but the years of smoking left Ida’s lungs damaged and beyond repair. On this Good Friday March 21, 2008, Ida Mae Russell Sills slipped away and joined her beloved daughter in Heaven. Fortunately her husband Albert preceded her and joined his mother in a much warmer climate.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Despite the Onion<\/a>-like quality, this is a real obituary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Various sites on the internet are proclaiming this to be the best obituary ever written. Here’s a choice excerpt: Ida developed a cold that progressed into pneumonia. Now Ida was a smoker. She said “to quit smoking well that’s easy. I ought to know. I have done it a thousand times” but the years of … <\/p>\n

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