For years , every time we so much as touch a toe out of Department of State , I ’ve put cemeteries on our travel path . From garden - alike burying ground to reboot J. J. Hill , whether they ’re the concluding resting position of the well - known but not that important or the of import but not that well - known , I love them all . After realizing that there are a lot of taphophiles ( cemetery and/or gravestone enthusiasts ) out there , I ’m finally putting my exposure program library of interesting gravestone to unspoilt use .
In 1964 , Ohio homemaker Erma Bombeckaccepteda line of work indite some humorous pieces for her local newspaper at $ 3 per column . Her slice - of - suburban area humor collide with a chord with women , and soon , TheDayton Journal Heraldtook notice and asked her to contribute two column per hebdomad for $ 50 . Her epigram on topics from cleaning to tike - rearing leave to the internal syndication of her employment , and by 1967 , her first Holy Writ , At Wit ’s goal , was being snap up by lady of the house and knead mother everywhere . Eleven more would survey , nine of whichended uponTheNew York Times’bestseller tilt .
Here are some of her best precious stone :
And then there’sthispieceabout what she would do differently if she could populate her sprightliness over .
But not everything in Bombeck ’s life was funny . What her firm readers did n’t know was that the humourist had long suffered from polycystic kidney disease . She was able to get a transplant in April 1996 , butdiedof complications after the surgery on April 22 .
Bombeck is buried at Woodland Cemetery in her aboriginal Dayton , Ohio — and though her name is n’t enrol on the headstone , there ’s no room you may miss her grave . Her husband require Erma to have a “ piece of Phoenix ” to give court to their 25 years in Arizona , so he had a 29,000 - pound boulderbrought into serve as her tombstone .
It ’s elegant , but it ’s miss the epitaph Bombeck oncesuggestedfor herself : “ braggart deal . I ’m used to dust . ”
Stacy Conradt
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