NC Woman’s Unflattering Obit Going Viral “Decent Mother, Fair Wife, Bad Cook & Horrible Driver”

RANDLEMAN, NC. (THECOUNT) — The obituary of Randleman, North Carolina woman, Martha Ware Hill, is going viral after the brutally honest author seems to be taking some parting shots, in part commenting, “she will be welcomed (wherever) with open arms..”

The satirical obituary remembers Martha, who passed away one day before her 65th birthday, as a “decent mother, fair wife, bad cook and a horrible driver” and someone who loved “smoking cigarettes, watching TV, and sitting on the couch.”

It’s always the ones left behind, or so they say as the obit composer notes, “Martha ambivalently leaves behind two offspring.”

Martha’s dislikes? “She hated computers, dirty laundry, negotiation, and doing things on other people’s terms,” the mean spirited, but relatable remembrance reads.

The obituary reads in full:

Having lived one day shy of 65 years, Martha has decided to “get on up outta here!” A loving Mimi, decent mother, fair wife, bad cook, and horrible driver, Martha loved teaching, her garden, smoking cigarettes, watching TV, and sitting on the couch. She hated computers, dirty laundry, negotiation, and doing things on other people’s terms. Preceded in death by a bunch of people, most noticeably her husband Ernie, who has most definitely already gotten the party started, she will be welcomed (wherever) with open arms. Martha ambivalently leaves behind two offspring: Justin and Emily; one granddaughter: Annily; siblings, cousins, nieces, nephews, dogs, cats, quite possibly a turtle, her wrath, and all things not important in her opinion. Instead of flowers, donations, or tears, take a moment to enjoy a happy thought, a drink, or a smoke. She would have liked that. source

Randleman is a city in Randolph County, North Carolina, United States. The population was 4,113 at the 2010 census. It is the home of NASCAR’s Petty family, the Victory Junction Gang Camp and was the location of the Richard Petty Museum from 2003-2014, according to Wikipedia.