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ObituaryRenay Mandel Corren
The Fayetteville Observer
Link: https://www.fayobserver.com/obituaries/m0028451
Written by her son. Snips...
El Paso, TXA plus-sized Jewish lady redneck died in El Paso on Saturday.
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.
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.
LOL, this one even deserved an article in The Guardian UK: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/dec/16/obituary-viral-renay-mandel-corren-texas
Quotes:
Renay has been toying with death for decades, but always beating it and running off in her silver Chevy Nova, the obituary states.
Covid couldnt 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 didnt cook, she didnt clean, and she was lousy with money, too. Heres what Renay was great at: dyeing her red roots, weekly manicures, dirty jokes, pier fishing, rolling joints and buying dirty magazines.
Covid couldnt 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 didnt cook, she didnt clean, and she was lousy with money, too. Heres what Renay was great at: dyeing her red roots, weekly manicures, dirty jokes, pier fishing, rolling joints and buying dirty magazines.
She represents one of those very rare, beautiful humans we cross paths with in our lifetimes. I've been lucky to have a few in my 74 years and this obit makes me think of some of them!
To Renay..... I regret never knowing you!
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Best obituary ever... (Original Post)
KY_EnviroGuy
Dec 2021
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left-of-center2012
(34,195 posts)1. Yep. There are a lot of good ones out there.
A lot of good headstones too.
One lady put a recipe on her headstone.
She had always told people she would give them her recipe "over her dead body".
KY_EnviroGuy
(14,519 posts)3. About as good a legacy as many of us could possibly leave...
especially some of my mom's and grandmother's recipes!.......
Botany
(70,846 posts)2. "Renay was preceded in death by Don Shula."
OMG Priceless!
Karadeniz
(22,749 posts)4. That made me laugh out loud!!!
TomWilm
(1,836 posts)5. A loving weirdo ...
Crudely translation of what I wrote about a dead friend:
... Ida Maria was a loving weirdo,
very engaged in our community
and always ready
for the next impossible fight against injustice ...