updating final wishes binder....
2/18/2022 deb's wishes
No online funeral home obit. especially not one where they ask questions and fill out a blank form. No. I wrote my own obit, please post on findagrave.com for me. (password binder).
NO funeral home pamphlet. NO specialty urn. I realize that living here will have to go through a local funeral home to get cremated somewhere, but don't buy anything from them.
is there a way to just drive me to the city and hand me over? or take me to the Body Farm. or throw me in a brush pile and cremate me yourself.
take down my Facebook.
1. I prefer to be donated to The Body Farm University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Family is responsible for transport. (I've always been a pain in the ass.)
2. second choice cremation and scattering of ashes. No stone.
3. third and only option if I die first, which I will. burial in a wild, abandoned rural cemetery. plain wood box. filled with wild roses and cloves of garlic. (humor me. you just never know.)
NO embalming. something gothic and towering if I must have a stone, no new fangled shiny polished just like everyone else's stone. No crosses. No religious quotes.
just my name, birth year and death year and a Blackberry Smoke lyric: time ain't gonna wait on me.
4. No wake. No funeral. No celebration of life. Take a big family vacation and drink a few swigs of something sweet and fruity that doesn't taste like alcohol. And if you see Bigfoot,
you know what to do. I love you. You were my best things. Take care of each other.
deb
mom
gramma
see blogpost 5/26/2020 for original
GUNS
2 black powder pistols in gun safe for Brayden.
Katie gets her 30/30 and Grandpa Lije's 30/30.
most of the guns left in safe are family guns, Kevin says.
old single shot 22 was Grandma Marie's, has tag that says 'this goes to Lije.'
double barrel 410 shotgun was Aunt Vera's. (Marie's sister.)
octagon barrel 22 was Grandma Marie's.
Marie was about as good a shot as Lije. When Lije was in ROTC in Columbia he was the best marksman. He went to Washington DC.
Kevin bought the Henry 357 Magnum 38 Special with money he made from selling guns.
2 old double barreled Parker 12 gauge shot guns are worth $$$$$$$. don't. give. them. away.
