The Obits
Remembering those who have left us to meet The Jesus
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Snake-Eyes
Read more: Snake-EyesSeraphina “Snake-Eyes” Slithergood shed her final skin June 15th outside her Animal World and Snake Farm booth at the 69th annual Rotary Festival, when a rattlesnake demo turned into an impromptu bonfire.
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Cherry Bomb
Read more: Cherry BombUnder the vigilant care of her geriatric nurse practitioner, Prudence “Cherry Bomb” McGuillicuddy reached her end on July 1th in Monkey’s Eyebrow Kentucky. Despite a regimen of baby aspirin, staten, Omesarten blood pressure medicine, vape, thc, a couple of ponies of Maker’s Mark and bedtime chamomile tea, she forgot…
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Irving “Bugman” Bartholomew
Read more: Irving “Bugman” BartholomewWell… Cousin Irving “Bugman” Bartholomew finally took his last ride to Jesus on a cloud of bee smoke . He’d imported a swarm of yellow-striped Africanized honeybees—“killer” variety by his own brag—then unloaded two jumbo cans of Saintly Swat from that Dollar Tree sale down on the corner of Main Street…
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Rhonda Faye “Exxon” Mullins
Read more: Rhonda Faye “Exxon” MullinsRhonda Faye “Exxon” Mullins fishtailed into glory last Tuesday night, courtesy of the self-propelled riding mower she’d hot-wired for “porch-parkin’ practice.” Witnesses say the mower—still stuck in donut mode—dragged her across three manicured cul-de-sacs of Santa Claus, Georgia (pop. 204) before launching her through Pastor Tunny’s inflatable nativity. Neighbors agree…
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Jasper “Jubilee” Trentham
Read more: Jasper “Jubilee” TrenthamJasper “Jubilee” Trentham, 38, of Snaggletooth, Georgia (pop. 311), was found dearly departed Monday morning in the parking lot of the Possum Tracks Bingo & Redemption Center, slumped over a still-wrapped mason jar postmarked from Whynot, MS. The parcel, marked “Do Not Open Until Jubilee”, was allegedly pried open right after…
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Burl “Crop Duster” Delacroix
Read more: Burl “Crop Duster” DelacroixBurl “Crop Duster” Delacroix, 62, of Whynot, Mississippi, was carried off Saturday by what Sheriff Tubb described as “a chemical baptism gone sideways.” Witnesses say Burl had been “safeguarding” a suspicious jug of Clementine Wilbanks’ communion punch, which he’d spirited away after the funeral to “study the carbonation.”
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Clementine “Peachy Keen” Wilbanks
Read more: Clementine “Peachy Keen” WilbanksClementine “Peachy Keen” Wilbanks, 44, of Whynot, Mississippi (pop. 576), went home to Jesus late Friday after choking on a whittled peach-pit whistle she’d won at the Ding Dong chili cook-off rummage table. Folks say Clem couldn’t resist free souvenirs—nor the third jug of communion punch—so when the whistle lodged, she…
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Zebulon “Swirly” Puckett
Read more: Zebulon “Swirly” PuckettZebulon “Swirly” Puckett, 75, of Ding Dong, Texas (pop. 22) answered the Lord’s late night call by drowning in the church toilet on Thursday, July 3. Born the year the store hung the two bell “ding dong” sign that named the town, Swirly rang just as loud and half as…