El Paso, TX--A plus-sized Jewish lady redneck died in El Paso on Saturday.

[Texasgal]

Obit:

Of itself hardly news, or good news if you're the type that subscribes to the notion that anybody not named you dying in El Paso, Texas is good news. In which case have I got news for you: the bawdy, fertile, redheaded matriarch of a sprawling Jewish-Mexican-Redneck American family has kicked it. This was not good news to Renay Mandel Corren's many surviving children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren, many of whom she even knew and, in her own way, loved. There will be much mourning in the many glamorous locales she went bankrupt in: McKeesport, PA, Renay's birthplace and where she first fell in love with ham, and atheism; Fayetteville and Kill Devil Hills, NC, where Renay's dreams, credit rating and marriage are all buried; and of course Miami, FL, where Renay's parents, uncles, aunts, and eternal hopes of all Miami Dolphins fans everywhere, are all buried pretty deep. Renay was preceded in death by Don Shula.

https://www.fayobserver.com/obituaries/m0028451?fbclid=IwAR0H131v__XOly8xVIlvoEnCZEKczb3Qb7ip2o1Vmh_hwqaWG4WWkf3pkfU

She sounds like someone I would have loved to know!

[Brainfodder]

1. "she even knew"? MUHAHA!

[canetoad]

2. Even the Guardian is reporting

snip

“Renay has been toying with death for decades, but always beating it and running off in her silver Chevy Nova,” the obituary states.

“Covid couldn’t kill Renay. Neither could pneumonia twice, infections, blood clots, bad feet, breast cancer twice, two mastectomies, two recessions, multiple bankruptcies, marriage to a philandering Sergeant Major, divorce in the 70s, six kids, one cesarean, a few abortions from the Quietly Famous Abortionist of Spring Lake, NC or an affair with Larry King in the 60s.”

It also lists her many talents: “She played cards like a shark, bowled and played cribbage like a pro, and laughed with the boys until the wee hours, long after the last pin dropped.”

“Renay didn’t cook, she didn’t clean, and she was lousy with money, too. Here’s what Renay was great at: dyeing her red roots, weekly manicures, dirty jokes, pier fishing, rolling joints and buying dirty magazines.”

https://amp.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/dec/16/obituary-viral-renay-mandel-corren-texas

[mcar]

3. Best obituary ever!

I posted this over the weekend and it sank. I'm glad someone else picked it up too.

[orangecrush]

4. ....

[FelineOverlord]

5. Amazing

Here's the grandson who wrote the "catty obituary" as he wrote it.

Link to tweet

[orangecrush]

6. Thank you!

I laughed the whole way through, and teared up at the end.

I would be honored (posthumously) were someone to write something so beautiful about me.

[Texasgal]

7. Agreed..

When I saw it I knew I had to post!