This 82 Year Old’s Obituary Is So Savage That It Left Her Son Speechless

this 82 year old's obituary is so savage that it left her son speechless a few months after cornelia june rogers miller died her obituary appeared in a north carolina newspaper and while that by itself was nothing really out of the ordinary this particular tribute to the deceased ended up making ways for its brutal honesty yes the notice didn't hold back in its scathing takedown of the 82 year old and it seriously upset the late great grandmother's son as a result from the basic facts of miller's life though you may never realize what she had apparently done to warrant such harsh treatment june as miller preferred to be known entered the world in the mississippi city of morton in 1934 although she later settled in gainesville florida then after that she relocated to high springs florida alongside her husband robert and their son robert jr where it appears she lived out the rest of her days apart from june's husband and son her immediate family also consisted of daughters suzanne amos and marilyn miller through them and robert jr june would gain a total of nine grandchildren and six great-grandchildren all born within her lifetime at the end of her death another two great-grandkids were also on the way but although june had chosen florida as her home it appears that she and her husband had had a long-running love affair with north carolina at the very least the couple had a summer home in the town of murphy in the blue ridge mountains and they are said to have visited the location whenever they could in 2017 robert jr told newschannel 9 once my father retired he and my mom would go up to murphy pretty much whenever they like to they would go for a weekend in the winter when june and robert senior sold their beloved retreat in 2016 though those times came to an end by that point the six and a half hour drive between high springs and murphy was proving too arduous for june and robert senior the health of each was it seems not as good as it had once been then finally the couple moved together into an assisted living facility where they shared a room but the couple were separated for good in february 2017 when june sadly lost her life along with her extended family the wife and mother left behind her husband who was four years her senior and explaining the cause of his mother's death robert jr told news channel nine she was 82 years old i believe so she had a variety of complications yet while it's not exactly clear how the miller family coped in the months following june's passing it can't have helped those grieving for the matriarch when a truly savage obituary subsequently appeared in the cherokee scout that's one of the local north carolina newspapers and it's based in the couple's beloved murphy put simply an obituary is a news article or notice that declares the death of an individual often it features some details about the major aspects of that person's life the family members they have left behind for example or a small summary of their greatest achievements and usually an obit will also provide the details of any funeral held on behalf of the deceased in many cases too an obituary is written by someone who was close to the person who has died the notice is then typically published by a local newspaper in order to inform the wider community of the individual in question's passing and frequently such a tribute aims to give others a flavor of the deceased's life detailing what was important to them furthermore since an obituary can serve as a lasting written eulogy a family may feel it important to give some sense of their loved ones nature in their tribute relatives may also deem it necessary to express their sorrow at the death or even give thanks for the time that they had together with the deceased and owing to their often heartfelt content obituaries often make for emotional reading a good obituary can even give readers an insight into an individual's life and an idea of their character even if the person being written about had been a total stranger as you may know then an obit tends to focus on the positive aspects of a person's life maybe even giving a glowing synopsis of their time on earth and with that in mind june's obituary rather stood out from the crowd when it appeared in the cherokee scout that wasn't down to the tribute being exceptionally kind mind you in fact it was quite the opposite and after the scathing announcement hit the press it left june's son feeling very upset indeed during his conversation with news newschannel9 robert jr expressed his dismay with the obit saying the whole thing is just sad but while it's not publicly known who was responsible for the terrible tribute robert jr believed that the obituary had come from someone close to his mother and probably either suzanne or marilyn as jun's devastated son told news channel 9 it's unbelievable that my sisters would write this it's really sad that they don't have anything better to do however despite robert jr's finger-pointing the mystery surrounding the obituary only deepened when one of his sisters denied that they were responsible for its publication the obit in question begins ordinarily enough citing june's full name and her birthday as well as her hometown it also gives the day on which she has died as february 23 2017 and while that date may have been accurate it nevertheless hinted at something rather unusual you see it appeared that june had passed away a whole four months before the notice had appeared in the cherokee scout then after the seemingly innocuous intro june's obituary continued in a familiar way detailing the circumstances surrounding her death and stating that she had passed away after a long battle with drug addiction and depression after that there was some information on the places where june had lived alongside a mention of murphy where the obit said the deceased had spent summers next up there were some details regarding june's family situation with her three children robert jr suzanne and marilyn all mentioned and the seemingly touching next line read each child had three children brighter and more attractive than the generation before them all nine are a testimony to a life well lived however as the obituary went on things took a savage turn you see while the notice acknowledged that june had helped produce a family it also suggested that she hadn't found joy in those relatives one brutal extract reads we are thankful for the life that was issued forth because of june we wish she could have appreciated the abundance of life she was given and the harsh tone of the obituary only seemed to escalate from there one line even claimed that june head made no contribution to society and had rarely shared a kind word or deed in her life the so-called tribute also alleged of the late woman drugs were a major love in her life as june had no hobbies what's more the obits writer stated that june's life should serve as a cautionary tale to others of how not to behave apparently alluding to the matriarch's personality and habits the notice continued addiction and hatred are no es bueno for the living and the scathing summary of june's 82 years on the planet didn't end there the obituary then claims that june's passing had little effect on her loved ones one cutting extract reads we speak for the majority of her family when we say her presence will not be missed by many very few tears will be shed and there will be no lamenting over her passing but despite the negative portrayal of june and the notice the writer did make an admission that the deceased would be thought about on occasion the obituary went on her family will remember june and among ourselves we will remember her in our own way which include mostly sad and troubling times throughout the years [Music] the biting o bit continued we may have some fond memories of june and perhaps we will think of those times too but we truly believe at the end of the day all of us will really only miss what we never had a mother grandmother and great-grandmother we hope she is finally at peace towards the end of the obituary it's claimed that june's death may even have been a positive effect on her family poignantly it says as for the rest of us left behind we hope this is the beginning of a time of healing and learning to be a family again but the tribute also suggested that the matriarch's relatives wouldn't get together in the wake of her death the obituary finished by claiming there will be no service no prayers and no closure for the family june spent a lifetime tearing apart we cannot come together in the end to see to it that her grandchildren and great-grandchildren can say their goodbyes her legacy is written so we say here for all of us goodbye mom and after the cutting notice appeared in the cherokee scout its contents perhaps unsurprisingly divided opinions among readers news 13 reporter stephanie centostasi also went on to share an image of june's obituary on twitter where she asked her followers thoughts and the reactions to these scornful words were in fact more varied than you may assume naturally many people were horrified about the sour nature of june's obituary and this prompted one twitter user to comment even if true it's so wrong unkind and just plain mean i don't believe it r.i.p june another person simply wrote in response how freaking sad elsewhere though others appeared to empathize with the person behind the less than gracious obit one tweeted for instance don't know them don't know her don't know what happened in their lives but i'm going to guess this was very cathartic for someone a further commenter wrote i can think of a few people like this sometimes people will not be missed sometimes that's okay given the attention that june's obituary received then david brown the newspaper's publisher subsequently chose to defend the cherokee scout's decision to print the tribute and although brown wouldn't disclose who had actually written the skating notice he did admit that the family's will had overridden the editor when it came to publishing the controversial piece in addition brown revealed that while staff at the cherokee scout do read each obituary before publishing they would only edit something if they felt it was absolutely necessary meanwhile in a bid to redress any damage created by the notice robert jr revealed that he was submitting a new tribute to his mom for publication most pressingly robert jr wished for june to be remembered as a kind and affectionate person june's son did not want all the special times that his mother and father had experienced in murphy to be tainted by the brutal obituary either and in all likelihood he may have hoped that his new tribute would serve to rectify things with an alternative notice for june in the making then it seemed that the miller family's ordeal was over however that's when the plot thickened you see it emerged that the scathing tribute to the matriarch had seemingly been copied in part from a 2008 death notice in a northern california newspaper and after robert jr learned that his mother's obituary had been copied from elsewhere he stuck by his belief that one of his sisters was responsible he told channel 9 news unbelievable she doesn't even have the integrity to write something herself she just goes out and steals something when i first read it i had a weird suspicion that it did not sound like her the original obituary which had appeared in vallejo's times herald announced the passing of dolores aguilar and when the notice passed over editor ted vollmer's desk it sure caught his attention in 2017 he told newschannel 9 i had edited probably thousands of obituaries up to that point and had written a lot myself when this one came in my eyebrows shot up and dolores and june's obituaries contained a lot of similar material much of the content of both read exactly the same word for word in fact in essence then it appeared that swathes of the text of june's obit had simply been lifted from the earlier tribute and used wholesale but the question as to who would do such a thing remained mind you ted hadn't just allowed dolores obituary to be published instead prior to the write-up hitting the press he had demanded evidence to confirm that it had indeed come from her family the editor told newschannel 9 i asked the relatives for a copy of the death certificate or some proof of who dolores was and it seems that one of delores's six daughters was subsequently able to authenticate the note it's not clear if june's skating obituary underwent a similar authentication process at the cherokee scout when staff learned that the tribute had been plagiarized however they did consider removing it from the newspaper's website and although the employees deliberated for a little while a final decision was ultimately made the controversial notice was taken down from the internet as it turned out though there were further similarities between junes and dolores's obituaries than just those identical words for one the recounting of dolores life had also caused a stir upon publication and as had been the case with june's old bit one of delores's relatives had also felt that the death notice was too harsh ted therefore permitted the late woman's granddaughter to publish a new announcement one revealing how her view of her grandmother differed from that portrayed in the first obituary the cherokee scout made a similar offer to robert jr who had his own tribute to his mother published free of charge news channel 9 later revealed that his obituary described june as a devoted military wife and homemaker who made a wicked lemon pound cake and hopefully it gave her son some comfort to finally put his side of the story forward perhaps surprisingly though june and dolores obits aren't the only ones to have gained attention for their less than glowing portrayal of their subjects after a man from iowa passed away on march 2019 for instance the words that were written about him were so scathing that they soon went viral and you'll be stunned to learn who penned them too when tim shrant died his sister pam capriva barnes saw an opportunity to tell the world what her brother was really like in his obituary and it's safe to say that she didn't hold back either yes while it appeared that caprile barnes sibling was known for his sharp tongue her tribute to her brother definitely gave shrant a run for his money tim schrantz certainly received a death notice that strayed from the ordinary platitudes the resident of spillville iowa had passed away in march 2019 after being diagnosed with cancer as his sister pam capriva barnes candid final tribute attests though while shrant may now be gone it will likely be a very long time before the colorful character is forgotten to begin with shrant entered the world in june 1955. he was the fourth out of eight children to parents bill and mary and attended saint juan kislos a catholic school in his hometown then after graduating from south winnishiek high school in nearby calmer shrant decided to join the army and following his time in the army shrant spent more than three decades making tools and dies as his profession he also married crystal hilmer with whom he had two sons cody and josh then after ultimately splitting from his boy's mom shrant went on to have a 13-year relationship with a woman named cheryl murray through murray schrandt became a stepfather and eventual step-grandfather he also had two granddaughters through his biological children adding to an already large family that included many siblings nieces nephews and cousins but despite the size of shrant's clan it seems that the man marked himself out as a figurehead naturally then those close to shrant felt his untimely passing acutely the 63 year old had had received a diagnosis of an aggressive kind of cancer in early march and tragically he would not see the month out however throughout his time with the disease shrant often had his family by his side and even as shrand's illness progressed his unique personality shone through he still apparently wore his shirts mostly unbuttoned in his signature style for example he's also said to have refused to quit smoking and continued to curse liberally in all shrant simply refused to let cancer rob him of his character something copriva barnes happened to notice so during the evening of one of the final days of shrant's life capriva barnes was finding it impossible to get off to sleep consequently she sat down and began penning an obituary for her brother that aimed to encapsulate shrant's nonchalant attitude and tendency towards cantankerousness and the result was decidedly hilarious announcing her brother's death in his obituary capriva barnes wrote tim schrandt made his last inappropriate comment on march 29 2019 if you're wondering if you may have ever met him you didn't because you would remember for those of you that did meet him she added we apologize and we're sure he probably offended you caprivo barnes went on to say that shrant was world-renowned for not holding back and telling it like it is and she proceeded to give some examples of her brother's devil may care approach to life these included one memorable moment from his childhood when he came to blows with one of the nuns at saint when kislos referring to the incident insurance obituary capriva barnes revealed he got into fisticuffs with a nun in fairness she probably started it you didn't take a swing at tim and not expect one back and from the sisters accounting of her sibling it appeared that a disregard for the rules was a common thread in the rich tapestry of shrant's life as capriva barnes revealed tim's fondness for authority his own not others followed him to south winnishiek high school in calmer and later into the army this provided for many interesting episodes and stories detentions and emotions and a few run-ins with the law not just locally but globally and while it may appear that shrant had settled down somewhat upon establishing himself as a tool and a die maker he seemingly wasn't particularly fond of some of his colleagues tim worked with many friends and a bunch of morons his words not ours his obituary read that said it wasn't just shrant's attitude that made him a maverick capriva barnes revealed tim leaves behind a hell of a lot of stuff that his family doesn't know what to do with so if you are looking for a virgin mary in a bathtub shrine you catholics know what we're talking about you should wait the appropriate amount of time and get in touch with them however while capriva barnes tribute to her brother apparently showed that a sense of humor ran in the family there were also tender moments in the obituary for instance capriva barnes recalled how her brother had relished in his self-appointed position as king of his younger siblings her included tim spent his childhood and early adulthood ordering them around and in general tormenting them she wrote and in trance obituary capriva barnes went on to pay tribute to her brother's two great boys who he was extremely proud of she added he will be missed by his two granddaughters that he adored and taught to cuss there was regret too that the wider family wouldn't have any new material after great orator shrant passed away indeed according to his obituary shrant was often the center of attention many relatives wanted to hang out near him because you just knew he was going to say or do something good it's not that he was such a great storyteller it's that he was the story it read still capriva barnes promised that her brother's legacy would be kept alive by those whom he had left behind what's more shrant's sister suggested that he had now gone to a big party in the sky shrant will be having a reunion with his infant daughter ashley his brother duke his dad bill shrant many aunts and uncles and a handful of cousins that passed before him tim was in charge of getting the beer and ice for our family reunions so they will be happy to see him his obituary read and in wrapping up her tribute capriva barnes confirmed that shrant would be remembered to those who knew him as an eternal rebel a common line in obituaries is he never met a stranger in tim's case he never met a rule he couldn't break a boundary he couldn't push a line he couldn't cross and a story he couldn't stretch she wrote in a sweet tribute to shrant the obit continued tim was anything but common despite his crusty exterior cutting remarks and stubbornness there is actual evidence that he was a loving giving and caring person that evidence is the deep sorrow and pain in our hearts that his family feels from his passing [Music] speaking of shrant's final days capriva barnes added tim led a good life and had a peaceful death but the transition was a and for the record he did not lose his battle with cancer when he died the cancer died so technically it was a tie he was ready to meet his maker we're just not sure the maker is ready to meet tim [Music] then finally the obituary came to a close by mentioning something close to shran's heart booze the final paragraph read we are considering establishing a gofundme account for g hallman brewing company the brewers of old style beer as we anticipate they are about to experience significant hardship as a result of the loss of tim's business keep them in your thoughts so while the obituary may have been unconventional its irreverence seemingly summed up shrant perfectly capriva barnes apparently thought as much anyway indeed in april 2019 she told city pages that sending her brother off with a traditional tribute would have been akin to burying him in a suit this for the record the family didn't do instead schrandt went to his final resting place in saint went across catholic church's graveyard wearing his usual choice of a western shirt and jeans and while his family refrained from unbuttoning the shirt owing to the previous medical procedures that he'd had to his chest they did still inter him with a bottle of old style beer for the road later capriva barnes revealed that she had been writing trans obituary at the exact moment his life had ended she had been so engrossed in her endeavors in fact that she had failed to see a text she received informing her of her brother's passing it was therapeutic for me to write the obituary she explained to city pages before adding in her signature wit it was like a dump if you will and prior to writing her brother's tribute copriva barnes had often read obituaries although she had been largely unimpressed by how spiritless they usually were you might as well go to the courthouse she told cindy pages perhaps this goes some way to explaining then why shran's obituary has proved so popular yes since capriva barnes words for her brother appeared on the schluter ballack funeral home website in march 2019 they have been shared far and wide and the tribute has garnered considerable acclaim too it has since been described for one as possibly the best obituary ever written shrant by contrast was labeled the orneriest man in iowa by the des moines register in addition the guest book for shrant on the schluter ballot funeral home website has subsequently received reams and reams of comments from across the united states nor does the influence of the obituary end there as it has even provoked responses from as far afield as australia and the united kingdom on the page someone who clearly knew shrant wrote tim was larger than life he lived life on his terms you either jumped on for the ride or he ran over you he was one of those people that you rarely meet in life but also will never forget farewell my friend you will be missed yet shran's obituary also seemingly touched strangers thanks to capriva barnes's colorful account you see the iowa man's maverick spirit jumped off the page i never heard of schrandt nor did i ever meet him but i know i would have loved him in fact i think i actually do wrote one such commenter speaking of shran another person said he sounds like a great guy how lucky you all were to have him in your lives i can only hope that when i go someone loves me enough to write an obit or eulogy like this about me it will have to be tweaked to fit me of course but i would love it god bless him and what a hoot he will be in heaven and even in his death shrant had managed to be a motivator now that's how to live life a further commenter wrote bold full throttle with gusto and no apologies tim inspires me to return to my former ways of living the same before i insanely allowed the world to beat me down but not out if there is a heaven i'm sure it is in full party swing with tim's arrival rock on tim judging by his obituary then it seemed as though shrant had lived life on his terms and had provided no apology for it and thanks to his sister's heartfelt tribute his attitude had made him a viral sensation this was a turn of events that capriva barnes found funny however as in true shrand fashion her brother had thought that social media was stupid in fact she added he'd have seen all the attention he was getting as an epic waste of time