I don’t know if any of you ever read the obituaries. My guess is that the older you are the more likely you are to let your eyes drift over to that section of the newspaper. As the comedian would say, “just to make certain your name’s not printed there.” Of course, some of our younger members are asking, “What’s a newspaper?”

An interesting obituary appeared in the Chattanooga Times-Free Press recently (12/18/2019) that, in my estimation, was good for a chuckle or two. It was for a Katie McDonald, 80 years old. The obituary contained all kinds of praise for her virtues as a human being, but as you read down the page you are exposed to some of her eccentricities as well.

One paragraph reads like this: “She was preceded in death by the father of their four children, Charles Alan McDonald, …