Posted on 06/05/2018 12:36:39 PM PDT by MplsSteve
An obituary exposing a woman's long-ago affair in western Minnesota has captured the eyes of many this week.
Kathleen Dehmlow died May 31, and the Redwood Falls Gazette published an obituary citing wrongdoings in her life.
The piece starts out conventionally, beginning with "Kathleen Dehmlow (Schunk) was born on March 19, 1938, to Joseph and Gertrude Schunk of Wabasso." The post goes on to state she married Dennis Dehmlow at St. Anne's in Wabasso, and they had two children -- Gina and Jay -- the authors of this obituary.
Then, the details follow:
In 1962, she became pregnant by her husband's brother Lyle Dehmlow and moved to California. She abandoned her children, Gina and Jay who were then raised by her parents in Clements, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Schunk.
After that, the obituary stated she "passed away on May 31, 2018, in Springfield," and that she "will now face judgment."
(Excerpt) Read more at kstp.com ...
Not really. I am sure that they both had good reason to harbor ill feelings. This “mom” ripped up her parent card. Only sewage abandons children.
That’s hilarious...
Good parents abandon children so they can be adopted by someone capable. These people are very rare.
The worst parents use their children to extort money from people.
Some wounds cut too deep and never heal.
This lady abandoned her children when they were very young. In doing so, she appears to have abandoned their grandparents, her parents too. It would not be easy for her folks to manage two little kids.....just like it would not be easy for two young adults to manage elderly grandparents.
She certainly caused more than her fair share of heartache.
“but we’re all called to forgive those who’ve harmed us.”
Only if they repent and ask for it.
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I had a friend whose mom was a horrible person.
She passed and by reading her obits, you’d have thought she was Mother Theresa.
I get so sick of the hypocrisy of those who fawn all over someone who has passed when they wouldn’t give them the time of day while alive.
They can write what they want. They are entitled and she was their mother.
i would not have placed this obituary. However, some people become parents strictly due to their irresponsibility and do not necessarily deserve to be “honored”
JMHO.
Just me but I don’t care to embrace the fiction that everyone has to be remembered as a good person after they die. If they were idiots then that’s the truth and if they didn’t want to be remembered as an idiot then they didn’t have to be one.
Yup.
—small world that it is, one of the people mentioned worked for me in the late ‘60’s-—good miner-—
I hope he wasn't an airline pilot.
I can’t wait to read both of the Clinton’s.
I agree with you.
IN addition, there are so many people with mental health issues or whom decide not to grow up etc that if this taboo breaking style is to take place, would fill newspapers with disparaging remarks that aren’t true. I don’t want to see vindictive people venting their spleen on those who can no longer defend themselves. Low-lifes blaming their sins on others or creating stories of “had an affair with the milk-man” when it wasn’t true just to “get at” the milkman or his family for some imagined slight. People wronged by the dead can heal without putting their accusations in a newspaper.
Tacky and classless.
De mortuis nil nisi bonum
“Not much to honor with someone who dishonored her marriage vows and provided an affirmative answer to the Prophet Isaiah’s question “can a woman forget her child?” “
King David. Honor, or no honor?
Bless you and your family.
It’s a tough situation for all and many sides and facts of which we are unaware.
It is not mine to judge as I must first work on my own issues.
The children do need to heal as holding on to anger damages the soul and physical body. Forgiveness sets us free. Anger attaches us to the other person.
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