Time Expired: The Parking Meter Tombstone

Barbara Sue Manire, who died in 2005, had a great sense of humor. Her tombstone has a parking meter with time expired (of course). Snopes has the scoop:

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The above-displayed [picture does] show the Okemah, Oklahoma, gravesite of one Barbara Sue Manire, who passed away on her 64th birthday in 2005 and is now interred at Highland Cemetery beneath a whimsical symbol of time expired: a parking meter with a "64 year time limit." (Her headstone also bears the legend "OUR MOM … HER HUMOR LIVES ON.")

As Barbara Sue’s daughter, Sherri Ann Weeks, explained, the unusual decorative feature at the gravesite was indeed her mother’s idea:

Mom always said she wanted a parking meter with ‘time expired.’ And she watned to be on the front row of the cemetery so she could see what was going on. We gave her what she wanted.

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March 10, 2008 at 6:34 pm by Alex
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8 comments to "Time Expired: The Parking Meter Tombstone"

MikeRM
March 10th, 2008 at 6:38 pm
That is cool! Go Barbara!
Brian Lutz
March 10th, 2008 at 8:00 pm
So if you put money in, does she come back to life for five minutes?
Max
March 10th, 2008 at 8:30 pm
I love when people have a sense of humor about their own death.

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jojo
March 10th, 2008 at 11:14 pm
wow, born and die on April 29th
Matt
March 10th, 2008 at 11:58 pm
Nicely Done Barb ! Such a witty and humerous final farewell !
Nate
March 11th, 2008 at 8:30 am
Ha! My family has a great sense of humor as well. My father died Sept 29th, 2005 and while we were picking out his clothes for the funeral we also had to choose the “under garments.” So we did, Halloween boxer shorts. We proceeded to tell everyone at the funeral to put a smile on their face.

But this…classic.
L
March 11th, 2008 at 1:12 pm
It’s cool when people die on their birthdays. I mean, you have to go sometime… so why not make it nice and neat? Then your family only has to mourn/celebrate on one day.
TT
March 11th, 2008 at 11:58 pm
But the joke should be:

“That f’ing Biotch took my damned spot.”

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