The obituary for Margaret Marilyn DeAdder stands head and shoulders above everyday obits you may come across. It begins by describing her as many things, including “self-described Queen Bitch,” and then goes into the highlights of her life.
Marilyn loved all children who weren’t her own and loved her own children relative to how clean-shaven they were. She excelled at giving the finger, taking no sh!t and laughing at jokes, preferably in the shade of blue. She did not excel at suffering fools, hiding her disdain, and putting her car in reverse. A voracious reader, she loved true crime, romance novels and the odd political book. Trained as a hairdresser before she was married, she was always doing somebody's hair in her kitchen, so much so her kitchen smelled of baking and perm solution. Marilyn had a busy life, but no matter what she was doing she always made time to run her kids’ lives as well. Her lifelong hobbies included painting, quilting, baking, gardening, hiking and arson. Marilyn loved tea and toast. The one thing she loved more than tea and toast was reheated tea and toast. She reheated tea by simply turning on the burner often forgetting about it. She burned many a teapot and caused smoke damage countless times, leaving her kids with the impression that fanning the smoke alarm was a step in brewing tea.
Oh, there’s lots more, including her relationships with her family members. All in all, it’s a loving and memorable tribute to a life well lived. No one will forget Margaret Marilyn DeAdder. Read the whole thing at the website of Cobb’s Funeral Home in New Brunswick. -via Fark