A scathing obituary for a great-grandmother in a North Carolina newspaper has left some members of the woman's family devastated.
Cornelia June Rogers Miller, 82, from Gainesville, Florida, died in February but four months later a harsh obituary, which is believed to be plagiarized, was published in a North Carolina newspaper.
'We speak for the majority of her family when we say her presence will not be missed by many, very few tears will be shed, and there will be no lamenting over her passing,' the obituary published on June 27 in the Cherokee Scout said.
Though Miller's son believes one of his sisters wrote the obit, the actual sender has not been identified.
Miller, who went by June, and her husband Robert Miller, 86, had a summer home in Murphy, North Carolina, but had to sell the house last year.
The couple eventually moved into an assisted living home in Florida together.
Cornelia June Rogers Miller, 82, right, from Gainesville, Florida, died in February but four months later a harsh obituary, which is believed to be plagiarized, was published in a North Carolina newspaper. She is pictured with her surviving husband Robert Miller, 86, left
According to the obituary, June 'had no hobbies, made no contribution to society and rarely shared a kind word or deed in her life'.
Her eldest son Robert Miller Jr, 62, said the obituary wasn't true and blamed his sister.
'It's unbelievable that my sisters would write this,' he told WTVC, but when the outlet spoke to one of his sisters, she also denied writing it.
Though the outlet did not name her, the woman said the eulogy was 'very tragic and very sad'.
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ShareRobert told the outlet he hopes his mother will be remembered as a loving and generous woman and he has sent a new obituary to the Scout that will run next week without charge.
The paper's publisher David Brown said 'the family's will overrode the editor' when they decided to publish the obituary.
The Cherokee Scout publisher David Brown said 'the family's will overrode the editor' when they decided to publish the obituary. He refused to identify who sent it in
He refused to identify who sent in the original obituary.
It appears to have been plagiarized from an obituary for Dolores Aguilar published in the Vallejo Times Herald in California in 2008.
Many of the same lines in June's obituary are also in the 2008 obit, including: 'Her family will remember June, and amongst ourselves we will remember her in our own way, which were mostly sad and troubling times throughout the years.
'We may have some fond memories of her, and perhaps we will think of those times, too.
'But we truly believe at the end of the day all of us will really only miss what we never had – a mother, grandmother and great-grandmother.'
Another similar lines reads: 'There will be no service, no prayers and no closure for the family she spent a lifetime tearing apart. We cannot come together in the end to see to it that her grandchildren and great-grandchildren can say their goodbyes.'
A similar obituary was written by the family of Leslie Ray Charping, 75, who died in January.
The Texas family wrote a brutally honest obituary saying things such as: 'At a young age, Leslie quickly became a model example of bad parenting combined with mental illness and a complete commitment to drinking, drugs, womanizing and being generally offensive.'
The family did not hold a funeral for Charping.
JUNE MILLER'S SCATHING OBIT
Cornelia June Rogers Miller, born June 12, 1934, in Morton, Miss., left us on Thursday, Feb. 23, 2017. She died alone after a long battle with drug addiction and depression.
She resided in Gainesville, Fla., and spent summers in Murphy until she, with her husband and son, moved to High Springs, Fla.
She is survived by her husband, Robert William Miller, 86; and her son, Robert William Miller, 62, who lives at home. She also is survived by two daughters, Marilyn Miller and Suzanne Amos. Each child had three children, brighter and more attractive than the generation before them. All nine are a testimony to a life well lived. Of the nine grandchildren, there are six great-grandchildren and two in the making.
We are thankful for the life that was issued forth because of June. We wish she could have appreciated the abundance of life she was given.
Drugs were a major love in her life as June had no hobbies, made no contribution to society and rarely shared a kind word or deed in her life.
Please let June Miller’s life be a cautionary tale. Addiction and hatred are no es bueno for the living. We speak for the majority of her family when we say her presence will not be missed by many, very few tears will be shed, and there will be no lamenting over her passing.
Her family will remember June, and amongst ourselves we will remember her in our own way, which were mostly sad and troubling times throughout the years. We may have some fond memories of her, and perhaps we will think of those times, too.
But we truly believe at the end of the day all of us will really only miss what we never had – a mother, grandmother and great-grandmother.
We hope she is finally at peace.
As for the rest of us left behind, we hope this is the beginning of a time of healing and learning to be a family again.
There will be no service, no prayers and no closure for the family she spent a lifetime tearing apart. We cannot come together in the end to see to it that her grandchildren and great-grandchildren can say their goodbyes. Her legacy is written.
So, we say here for all of us, “Goodbye, Mom.”
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