'My dad has an unorthodox view of life and I wanted to honor him and make people smile,” Monique Heller, daughter of Joe Heller, who died at 82, said of the funny, viral obituary she wrote for her late father.
An adored man who “tortured his siblings” with “obnoxious pranks” and ran license plate numbers on his daughters’ boyfriends, was recognized in a funny, viral obituary.
A childhood during The Great Depression “resulted in a lifetime of frugality, hoarding and cheap mischief, often at the expense of others,” read the eulogy. Joe gleefully tormented his siblings with “obnoxious pranks,” including baking a chocolate cake with laxatives and naming the family dog “Fart” to embarrass his mom when calling the pet home.
Monique wrote that Joe met his wife Irene, “who was hoodwinked into thinking he was a charming individual with decorum. Boy, was she ever wrong. Joe embarrassed her daily with his mouth and choice of clothing. To this day we do not understand how he convinced our mother, an exceedingly proper woman and a pillar in her church, to sew and create the colorful costumes and props which he used for his antics.
“Joe was a frequent shopper at the Essex Dump and he left his family with a house full of crap, 300 pounds of birdseed and dead houseplants that they have no idea what to do with,” read the obit. “....Joe was also a consummate napper. There wasn’t a road, restaurant or friend’s house in Essex that he didn’t fall asleep on or in. There wasn’t an occasion too formal or an event too dour that Joe didn’t interrupt with his apnea and voluminous snoring.
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