Son, who wrote his father’s famous viral obituary, speaks.

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'Second-favorite son' behind viral obituary shares story behind unique tribute

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“He will be moderately missed.” “We don’t know if he was married, but he definitely was a lady’s man.” “As a gluttonous eater of fried foods and snack cakes, as well as the occasional chili cheese dog ...” None of the above are lines one might expect to come from the average obituary — but James Loveless didn’t live an average life, and it wouldn’t have been fitting for him to have an average obituary. Loveless, a Pulaski Countian who passed away on June 14 at age 60, has become known far and wide as the result of the obituary for him placed on the Pulaski Funeral Home website recently. The humorous, outside-the-box tone of the obit — available to read at https://www.pulaskifuneralhome.com/obituaries — comes courtesy of his son Rocky Loveless, who is identified in the text as being his father’s “second-favorite” son behind brother Rodney of Science Hill — “and I’m OK with that,” he noted to the Commonwealth Journal.

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