Cremate, people.

[Grammy23]

145. When my aunt died, her body was prepared for viewing at the funeral home.

She was 61 and had lived most of her life with her mom after a very brief marriage. My Granny always said they lived like sisters since she had her when she was about 16.

So before the viewing started another aunt (her sister-in-law) took a quick look to make sure she looked okay. After a glance she came out looking for the funeral director to demand they remove some of the lipstick. Aunt Blanche looked fabulous but nothing like she usually looked. She was tarted up like a showgirl with plenty of blush on her cheeks and ruby red lips. My other aunt told the funeral director that Granny would be upset to see her daughter looking like a Vegas Showgirl so they needed to tone it down a bit. LOL.

So they removed the red lipstick and put on something more dusty pink. And powdered her cheeks so they were less rosey. Granny was good with that and everything went forward from there. Her hair, by the way, was a faint shade of reddish pink, but that was the color she typically used....a rinse of some kind over her gray hair. Nothing needed to be done about that. I guess my aunt was ahead of the times with pinkish hair. That was in 1965.....these days she’d fit right in. LOL