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Good Riddance! Family’s brutally honest obituary for Galveston man
NewsFix ^ | 02-10-2017 | Maggie Flecknoe

Posted on 02/11/2017 1:39:32 PM PST by NRx

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To: NRx

Could have been just a normal everyday republican living amongst a family of hate filled leftists that resented his reason and logic. Someone took this chance to “twist the knife”, So to speak, When he wasn’t able to fight back.


41 posted on 02/11/2017 2:13:09 PM PST by HP8753 (Live Free!!!! .............or don't.)
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To: mylife

My reaction too.


42 posted on 02/11/2017 2:15:19 PM PST by Romulus
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To: NRx

It comes across as inappropriate to me

Just say nothing but some prayers over his wretchedness

Nobody was born wanting to be an asshat

Like being crazy ...nobody wants to be

Like twists the weak


43 posted on 02/11/2017 2:16:10 PM PST by wardaddy (trump is a great tourniquet but that's all folks.......)
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To: NRx

Something similar happened in our neighborhood but not quite this bad. My neighbor had 5 children and died of cancer not too long ago. I had heard rumors that he was kind of an ass and threw things at his wife among other things.

Any ways at the funeral home no one came forward to say anything about him. The priest gave it some time and asked again if anyone was going to say anything. All silence.


44 posted on 02/11/2017 2:17:00 PM PST by Parley Baer
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To: mylife

No kiddding

Apples in short orbit of said tree


45 posted on 02/11/2017 2:17:22 PM PST by wardaddy (trump is a great tourniquet but that's all folks.......)
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To: NRx

On the other hand, he’s not around to defend himself.

who knows if it’s true?

I know the phrase “don’t air our dirty laundry” can be heavily utilized to shut abuse victims up.

but to attack a man publicly after he’s dead seems below the belt. What if it’s all untrue, or at least exaggerated?

well, he’s not here to be hurt, either, I guess.


46 posted on 02/11/2017 2:18:52 PM PST by Persevero (NUTS)
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To: NRx

Obituary mentions mental health issues. Perhaps he was sick and never received proper care.


47 posted on 02/11/2017 2:19:06 PM PST by HotKat (Politicians are like diapers; they need to be changed often and for the same reason. Mark Twain)
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To: Parley Baer

I hope my kids do this.


48 posted on 02/11/2017 2:20:41 PM PST by AppyPappy
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To: OrangeHoof

A little more information:

“Charping also had a handful of run-ins with the law, according to Harris County court records. His first conviction dates back to 1979, when he pleaded guilty to assault.
He also pleaded guilty in 2008 to assaulting a family member by pouring hot liquid on his then-wife of 40 years. The next year he pleaded guilty to violating the resulting restraining order by calling another family member and threatening to kill her.”

I don’t feel a bit sorry for that asshole.


49 posted on 02/11/2017 2:22:01 PM PST by tuffydoodle ("Never underestimate the total depravity of the average human being.")
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To: HotKat

Family sure as hell didn’t give a fig.


50 posted on 02/11/2017 2:22:53 PM PST by mylife (The roar of the masses could be farts)
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To: NRx

Obit reads like putting a curse on the deceased to hold him in the ground.


51 posted on 02/11/2017 2:23:33 PM PST by Jimmy Valentine (DemocRATS - when they speak, they lie; when they are silent, they are stealing the American Dream)
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To: tuffydoodle

That makes him less defensible

But I still don’t think a public newspaper obit is the place

And they are southern

Houston right

They oughta know better

Just cremate him for a few hundred and dump his ashes first pullover spot is desserts enuff


52 posted on 02/11/2017 2:29:14 PM PST by wardaddy (trump is a great tourniquet but that's all folks.......)
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To: wardaddy

I have known some serious asholes with bronze stars that would give you the shirt off their back

Can’t always judge a book by the cover


53 posted on 02/11/2017 2:29:30 PM PST by mylife (The roar of the masses could be farts)
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" This is a pretty ugly obituary full of hate and lacking in grace. "

Only half as bad as the ones Bill & Hillary should get.

54 posted on 02/11/2017 2:31:01 PM PST by crazy scenario (We can't take you anywhere)
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To: mylife

Nicely said my, I like that. Raise a toast for me, and get on with the living.


55 posted on 02/11/2017 2:31:30 PM PST by onona (Keeping the faith will be our new directive for the republic !)
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To: wardaddy

My own brother bad mouths my dead step grandfather as a dick.

The man served in the CBI

Brother says he was a Gdamn cook!
I say yes, yes he was on the LEDO rd


56 posted on 02/11/2017 2:32:25 PM PST by mylife (The roar of the masses could be farts)
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To: onona

Amen! get on with the living!


57 posted on 02/11/2017 2:33:14 PM PST by mylife (The roar of the masses could be farts)
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To: mylife

What is Gdam Cook?


58 posted on 02/11/2017 2:33:44 PM PST by eyedigress ((Old storm chaser from the west))
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To: HotKat

The obit mentions mental health issues at least 3 times, certainly two. We have such a crappy mental health system in the USA at this time I defy anyone who reads this and thinks this guy deserves all of it to find someone who doesn’t at one point or another in his or her life.

I base my comment on what I recall of another article on the prevalence of mental illness in this country: 30% are mentally ill all the time; 30% are marginally ill and frequently not ill all the time and the rest are, theoretically sane all the time...until they become one of the 30% in the marginally ill group.

Since his family didn’t describe his mental illness, I would have to guess based on my personal experience of living with a wonderful/horrible man with bipolar disease that Larry was probably bipolar. A bunch of his family may have the same disorder. Difficult to diagnose (oh, but they can be so charming!) and almost impossible to treat.

I suspect everything they said has a good chance of being true, but I would bet money there was more...it just surfaced less often so it didn’t count.

What a shame we don’t treat our mentally ill better.


59 posted on 02/11/2017 2:34:49 PM PST by Bodega (we are developing less and less common sense...world wide)
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To: NRx

What a shame.

What you do to other people gets remembered... bad, OR good.

A wasted life, clearly.


60 posted on 02/11/2017 2:37:30 PM PST by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
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