Texas Woman's Obituary Contains Campaign 2016 Satire
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YOAKUM, Texas (CBSDFW.COM) - A South Texas woman passed away at the age of 91 and her family had a little fun with her obituary, saying Elene Davis died of "congestive heart failure and the 2016 Presidential campaign."
The obituary, published in the Houston Chronicle, explains how Davis was "schooled in life and politics at the knee of her father, Marcell A. Meyer, who was a Jeffersonian Democrat, a highly independent thinker, a lumberman who rode fifty miles a day on horseback, with a shotgun in his saddle in the logging camps of south Louisiana, and who later founded and operated the Woodring-Meyer Lumber Company and Tex-Tan Leather company in Yoakum. She graduated from The University of Texas at Austin at the age of 19 and was pleased that her children and some of her grandchildren followed in her footsteps there."
The obituary goes on to say, "until her death, Elene honored an obligation to preserve her family's Southern legacy, personally undertaking the restoration of the Jewish Cemetery in Lafayette, Louisiana and maintaining her membership in the Jefferson Davis Chapter of the Daughters of the Confederacy. A student of history, she felt strongly that political correctness was an excuse to erase facts and history and she deplored the misinformed, the ill-informed and the mal-informed and thus made no apologies for the Truth, which she demanded from her children and others at all times."
Davis' family explained in the obituary, Davis was "the first woman in the world to be treated pre-metastatically with Interferon... The use of Interferon has since saved the lives of thousands of cancer patients worldwide."
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