this is a bit much but i also don’t understand the mentality of once a person is dead- they were saints.
“I wasn’t trying to be hateful, I genuinely … don’t have any hate. I am angry,” she told the Journal”
Good to know. I’d hate to see it if she made an effort. Sheesh 😏
I think her mom has more last names than Liz Taylor.
Sounds like she’s probably right that the world is better place without her.
Wow. My mom was a terrible parent and a horrible grandmother but I’ve forgiven her, I assume she thought she was doing her best. I’d never bash her publicly.
An obituary isn’t the place for this.
Parents are not automatically good people.
How does a parent “financially abuse” an adult child?
I’m siding with mom on this one.
I’ve know plenty of kids with problematic relationships. The ones where the parent was truly bad, the parent’s death went unrecognized. Indifference is the reaction. Or relief. But there will just be a death notice.
When the kid (usually a daughter) was scum, it’s a reaction like this.
Might be different here, but I’m going with this until proven otherwise.
I always say something good about the dead.
This woman’s mother is dead.
Good.
Frank Cullum
14 hours ago
You don’t have to believe it but I can confirm all of it is accurate. I am Lernell’s biological son.
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Annu
17 hours ago
I applaud her honesty and hopefully this is the beginning of a new dawn where truthful obituaries will are accepted and bring us change. I realize the glitches and the pitfalls about subjective/objective reality. But it is step in the right direction. They should not have taken it down. Maybe a fa...See more
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Brian J. Carnevale
15 hours ago
What goes around comes back around! Perhaps now she can start to heal from the abuse she suffered from. Abuse can cause one a great trauma if it is dispatched in multiple ways simultaneously. Abuse comes in many forms, it is always smart to remember this.
I do Hope she can start to heal now. The l...
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Heston Price
17 hours ago
Why should we believe her?
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Annu
15 hours ago
You dont have to believe anything. You can be offended. But the first amendment is freedom of speech. I believe her. What if she IS telling the truth then what? This could bring about change and rights for children who have no voice. I am a victim of child abuse with no one saving me and feeling ...
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Vern
11 hours ago
I did and I agree with you.
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Tom Harris
11 hours ago
I did and agree with you
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Extremeteam
12 hours ago
My dad is in his late 80’s, left us kids when we were very young, never paid child support, was barely involved in our lives in HS and although we have been fairly close over the years, he blew his inheritance from my grandparents on his third wife and has zero left. We support him and have become...
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Frank Cullum
14 hours ago
You don’t have to believe it but I can confirm all of it is accurate. I am Lernell’s biological son.
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Reality Check
13 hours ago
Yet, you don’t know how to spell her name. Nice try, Frankie.
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Edfrommoca
16 hours ago
With all those names the mom was pretty active
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Reality Check
13 hours ago
That’s what narcissists tend to do - they churn thru people. There’s a term for it, it’s called: narcissistic supply ... they are always looking for new people to befriend and abuse because most people eventually run away once they realize how they are. It’s a churn.
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I hope that by writing this obit has cleansed this poor soul’s heart and mind.
I can understand her. I’m still affected by what happened to me when I was a child.
Did she have the stones to tell these things to her mom face to face?
If not she’s a chicken shite.
Pathological family nembers need to be called out. They deserve it.
Actually, I understand her anger and frustration. Anyone who would wonder if her dead mother would do anything different, doesn’t understand that the mother didn’t care what the daughter thought, and would have only reinforced her treachery by the response.
My father turned into an evil old man, was a pedophile whose line was “ i’ve never been arrested “; and if you met him casually, you’d like him and think that the rest of us were crazy. That kind of Evil.
If we could write Hillary Clinton’s obituary, what would it say? 🤔
Once a person dies, libel laws no longer apply. Anyone can pay to publish a nasty obit about them if the newspaper wants to take the money for the obit. Why a person wants to pay to publicly denounce the deceased is about them. This is how this person dealt with the death of a difficult person. I do know someone who called his/her father “the devil”, but didn’t pay to put that in an obit. The obit may help subsequent generations understand the generation above them in the family history.
Was the daughter excluded from her mother’s will?
I know a woman who died recently that lambasted her older sister in her will, listing all the things she did and how evil she was in the will, and then gave everything to her other sister..
Mothers do not get an automatic pass. They must earn their accolades. Far too many are failing to do that.
Regardless, she has some major issues.
The mother might have had a different version.