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August 25, 2003

Remember the dead and work like hell for the living...

By Jim Dallas

From a friend, "Obituary backs 'removal of Bush'" --

When Sally Baron's family wrote her obituary, they described a northern Wisconsin woman who raised six children and took care of her husband after he was crushed in a mining accident.

She had moved to Stoughton seven years ago to be closer to her children and was 71 when she died Monday after struggling to recuperate from heart surgery. Her family had come to the question of what might be a fitting tribute to her.

"My uncle asked if there was a cause," her youngest son, Pete Baron, said.

Almost in unison, what her children decided to include in the obituary was this: "Memorials in her honor can be made to any organization working for the removal of President Bush."

"She thought he was a liar," Baron's daughter, Maureen Bettilyon, said. "I think his personality, just standing there with that smirk on his face, and acting like he's this holy Christian, that's what really got her."

Bettilyon, who lives in Stoughton, said her mother didn't trifle with petty neighborhood squabbles but was attuned to significant policy-making at all levels.

"She'd always watch CNN, C-SPAN, and you know, she'd just swear at the TV and say 'Oh, Bush, he's such a whistle ass!' She'd just get so mad," Bettilyon said.

The full obituary can be found here.

Posted by Jim Dallas at August 25, 2003 01:04 AM | TrackBack

Comments

Well, this is sure newsworthy. I'm glad my Grandma was not stupid enough to express her feelings of hate toward Clinton on her deathbed or absolute love towards Bush in her obituary. This woman had just a little hate inside her....its a shame that late in life and so close to the end.

Posted by: don at August 25, 2003 09:11 AM

Her final statement of this life, the summation of what she stood for, is to be a spiteful gesture against GW Bush? What a disgraceful family. Remind me to write my own epitaph now, lest a similar indignity be inflicted on my dead body.

Posted by: Mark Harden at August 25, 2003 04:50 PM

First, it was her family that included the request for donations to be made for ousting Dubya in her name, not the deceased. Secondly, even if it had been her dying wish (which was never stated), at least it would have been in the hopes of creating a better world for her family. She was pretty much right on the money, Dubya is a liar and an abomination to Christianity.

Moving on... I think I'll start to use her little posthumous quote from that article in my signature from now on...

"Oh, Bush, he's such a whistle ass!" - Sally Baron, RIP

Posted by: Dan Funderburke at August 26, 2003 07:38 AM

First, it was her family that included the request for donations to be made for ousting Dubya in her name, not the deceased.

That's why I blamed her family, for disgracing her memory with a petty, vindictive gesture. For those people, their irrational hatred of GW Bush even trumps the significance of their own mother's death. Pathetic, really.

Posted by: Mark Harden at August 26, 2003 09:15 AM

Can you exaggerate what was actually written just a little more, Mark? It was one line among many at the very end.

This is no summation of her life, if you read the entire obituary.

Posted by: Tx Bubba at August 26, 2003 10:03 AM

This is no summation of her life, if you read the entire obituary.

I did not state there was an explicit summation in the obituary. I wrote "Her final statement of this life, the summation of what she stood for, is to be a spiteful gesture against GW Bush?" i.e., the request for donations to oppose Bush is a symbolic summation of what her life meant. God forbid my own obituary should ever end with such a mundane, temporal memorial.

Posted by: Mark Harden at August 26, 2003 12:52 PM

Dubya is a liar and an abomination to Christianity.

Yes, yes, we all know about the Sixteen Words, although some of us wonder whatever happened to the impeachment trial. But, if I may ask - are you a Christian?

Posted by: Mark Harden at August 26, 2003 12:53 PM

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