re: James Groth of Lake Charles has a cool obituary

One of my uncles wrote his own obituary. He was a very successful businessman, had many note worthy life experiences and a large family; so I expected a larger than usual obituary when I opened the newspaper. Then... Holy shite! It's about 50 column inches. I read about 3 lines and was thinking who in the frick wrote this? After a couple of more lines, it was apparent that my uncle was the author and was playing one last joke. I thought it was hysterical, but I'm sure it caused a bit of consternation for some people. It was not your stereotypical obit.

At his wake, I was talking with one of my cousins about it. He said that he and his six siblings had a discussion about whether or not to print it as written. The final decision was that if he wrote it that way, that's what he wanted. So into the T-P it went!