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After Robert Boehm died connected Oct. 6, his lad Charles Boehm decided to transmission his dad’s irreverence and wit into a comic obituary, which led to it being viewed much than a cardinal times.
By Bentley Maddox Oct 19, 2024 1:00 PMTags
In Memoriam: Fallen Stars of 2024
One household is honoring their dad’s bequest successful a unique—and hilarious—way.
After Robert Adolph Boehm passed away Oct. 6 astatine the property of 74 from a autumn successful his Clarendon, Texas, apartment, his lad Charles Boehm was near wondering however to constitute his obituary. After immoderate net searching connected what to do, helium decided to lucifer the vigor helium felt his dada exuded portion alive.
“There are immoderate radical who mightiness deliberation it was irreverent and offensive, but I deliberation it sounds astir perfect,” Charles told The Washington Post successful an interrogation published Oct. 16. “To me, it beauteous overmuch describes my dad.”
In the comical obituary, the 41-year-old described his begetter arsenic “God’s occupation now.”
“Robert Adolph Boehm, successful accordance with his lifelong dedication to his ain idiosyncratic marque of decorum,” helium wrote, “muttered his past unintelligible and apt unnecessary curse connected October 6, 2024, soon earlier tripping backward implicit ‘some anserine mother****ing thing’ and hitting his caput connected the floor.”
Charles past described his father’s emotion of humanities weapons that sprouted aft Robert successfully avoided being drafted to the Vietnam War, which was “probably for the best” owed to his later-in-life shooting hobby that led to aggregate slug holes successful his car’s dashboard. Beyond shooting, it seems Robert had a “penchant for fashion,” though Charles sarcastically described his father’s wardrobe arsenic filled with “homemade leather moccasins” and “boldly mismatched shirts and pants.”
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“Robert besides kept a wide enactment of harmonicas connected hand,” Charles continued. “Not to play personally, but to punctual his beloved dogs to howl continuously astatine unusual hours of the nighttime to entertain his galore neighbors.”
After Charles posted the comedic reflection of Robert’s beingness online, the obituary has soared to implicit 1 cardinal views, according to Robertson Funeral Directors, the mortuary that performed the services for the Boehm family.
“Clarendon is simply a municipality of 2,000 people,” proprietor Chuck Robertson told The Washington Post. “I knew a batch of radical would emotion it, but I was shocked erstwhile it truly started to stroke up.”
In effect to each of laughs and visibility from strangers, Charles hopes that others volition retrieve to instrumentality elder attraction seriously.
“If I privation thing to travel from each of this, it’s for radical everyplace to enactment the intelligence wellness of radical successful small agrarian towns,” Charles shared. “They spell determination to retire, past erstwhile they’re old, their kids scatter and they extremity up alone. A batch of radical gaffe done the cracks. There are radical each implicit the state similar my dad. We request to look aft them.”
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