A retired upstate carpenter who died last week got the last laugh — leaving an obit filled with hilarious parting shots at friends and family.
Jeffrey Albert Rieck, 61, of Middletown, had drafted the paid notice a few days before succumbing to cancer Aug. 13, said his eldest son, Jeffrey, 26.
In it, Rieck zings his “good for nothing but beloved” sister, his “no sense of humor” son (Jeffrey), and his ex-wife, “whose house he whole-heartedly built and is thankful he will never have to perform another renovation on again.”
There’ll be no memorial, it says, because “he would prefer that no one gawks at him while he is deceased.”
The obit was rejected by his local paper, according to the Applebee McPhillips Funeral Home. Two New Jersey papers ran it.