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Mar. 12, 2013 11:11pm Jason Howerton

Harry Weathersby Stamps Obituary Goes Viral

Sun Herald

Harry Weathersby Stamps was a “ladies’ man” who loved deviled eggs as well as buttermilk served in martini glasses garnished with cornbread. The 80-year-old accomplished traveler died on Saturday, March 9, 2013.

If you haven’t heard of him, you’re not alone. He was just a regular guy whose epic obituary has gone viral, making him an Internet sensation in death.

Stamps’ brutally honest and entertaining obituary, written by his daughter Amanda Lewis, has been heralded by many as “the best obit ever.”

“He particularly hated Day Light Saving Time, which he referred to as The Devil’s Time,” the obit reads. “It is not lost on his family that he died the very day that he would have had to spring his clock forward. This can only be viewed as his final protest.”

(credit: Amanda Lewis)

He also “despised phonies, his 1969 Volvo (which he also loved), know-it-all Yankees, Southerners who used the words ‘veranda’ and ‘porte cochere’ to put on airs, eating grape leaves, Law and Order (all franchises), cats, and Martha Stewart. In reverse order.”

Instead of flowers, his family asks that mourners make a donation to Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College for its library.

“Finally, the family asks that in honor of Harry that you write your Congressman and ask for the repeal of Day Light Saving Time. Harry wanted everyone to get back on the Lord’s Time,” the obit concludes.

After the obituary went viral, its author, Amanda Lewis, told the Sun Herald that her father wouldn’t even know what “viral” means.

“He wouldn’t know what going viral means. He would have thought that was a disease he contracted, which would have excited him to have another illness to lord over folks,” said daughter Amanda Lewis, who wrote the obituary. An attorney who lives in Dallas, she wrote it during the trip to Long Beach, where Stamps died at home on Saturday, surrounded by his family.

To read the entire obituary in the Sun Herald, click here.

(H/T: Slate, HuffPo)

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Comments (37)

KEELHAULUM
Posted on March 13, 2013 at 6:12pm
Rest in Peace Harry.

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DesdemonasCrew
Posted on March 13, 2013 at 2:59pm
One can only hope that somebody will care enough about you when your gone to immortalize you with such a cool obit.

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bage66
Posted on March 13, 2013 at 2:21pm
how could you/he hate cats? >”<

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Stoic one
Posted on March 13, 2013 at 12:34pm
Daylight Savings Time…..It is a gov’t thing – did you expect something intelligent?

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MIBUGNU2
Posted on March 13, 2013 at 12:10pm
Harry Was a Ladies man..Slick Willie was his Hero ??

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wilbstal
Posted on March 13, 2013 at 11:30am
blah blah Leftys are dead in the long run

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- MIBUGNU2
  Posted on March 13, 2013 at 12:01pm
  Love ALL of the Lord’s critters except Lying Lefty Libotards..
  
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NONCENTS
Posted on March 13, 2013 at 11:28am
DUDE!! I also HATE Daylight Savings Time!!! It’s totally the work of the devil that I have to get up an hour earlier after just getting used to that extra hour of sleep! WTH???

I am SO totally writing my congressman.

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txswalker
Posted on March 13, 2013 at 11:27am
Yawn

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truebirther
Posted on March 13, 2013 at 10:26am
I stopped reading after I saw where “One of his regrets was not seeing his girl, Hillary Clinton, elected President. Nuff said. RIP

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red_white_blue2
Posted on March 13, 2013 at 10:08am
Sorry dude, not the best obit ever…sorry you loose the title.

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Mr.Fitnah
Posted on March 13, 2013 at 7:52am
Jezz what an *******.

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Mr.Fitnah
Posted on March 13, 2013 at 7:45am
Hated cats ?
Sounds like a sour puss.

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- objectivetruth
  Posted on March 13, 2013 at 10:51am
  Nice play on words there.I wonder if he really hated them or just played the role.A lot of guys from that generation claimed to hate cats and didn’t.We had a cat when I was quite young that was a family cat but in reality was mainly my daddys.The cat adored him.He loved the old thing yet when other men were around he would always say it was the familys cat and he just tolerated it.That he hated cats.When I got old enough to truly understand he explained to me that it was the male ego thing.Many men considred a cat to be a womens pet.He didn’t have the time nor patience to explain it to them and it would fall on mainly deaf ears anyway.
  
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BlueStarMom
Posted on March 13, 2013 at 4:10am
What I love about this is it tells us who he was and not just what he did. I totally forgive him for Hillary, and I know The Lord does too. He was born during the Depression in Mississippi. Of course he was a Democrat. And, after all, she isn’t president. Anyways, you gotta love a man who teaches his daughters to pick a quality hammer. RIP Harry.

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LeadNotFollow
Posted on March 13, 2013 at 3:06am
Too bad, that he was a Demoncrat who loved Hillary Clinton, but hated cats.
Should have been just the opposite. Guess God is straightening him out.

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LeadNotFollow
Posted on March 13, 2013 at 2:56am
The Washington Post article.
Posted at 07:15 AM ET, 03/12/2013
Daylight Savings Time, discussed
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/tom-toles/post/daylight-savings-time-discussed/2013/03/11/31178756-8a61-11e2-a051-6810d606108d_blog.html

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LeadNotFollow
Posted on March 13, 2013 at 2:52am
I really hate daylight savings time too.

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KyleD
Posted on March 13, 2013 at 2:40am
I read the thing but I didn’t see anything that was “epic.”

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Margyt
Posted on March 13, 2013 at 1:45am
I hope my kids will do the same for me when I kick the bucket. The daughter is tribute to the father.

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Anonymous T. Irrelevant
Posted on March 13, 2013 at 12:26am
I wouldn’t say best obit ever. Sounds like his daughters loved him, even though he was a Hillary Clinton loving, southern Democrat, progressive sociology college professor, who hated cats.
Doesn’t sound like I would have liked him too much. The guy was too particular and sounded too opinionated.

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- RIDEMODELS
  Posted on March 13, 2013 at 12:38am
  His daughters will become cat ladies….It shall be so….
  
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justasurvivor
Posted on March 13, 2013 at 12:08am
My family wouldn’t let me write such an honest obit for my dad. It might have been something like that (minus anything liberal as he was a life-long conservative whose vote cancelled my mother’s), except my dad’s would have this one point added about something he hated:

I had bought my dad a Sonicare toothbrush in his last year of life. He called it “that chainsaw you bought me to brush my teeth with.” :)

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tradexpertbuysell
Posted on March 13, 2013 at 12:08am
On my own tombstone I want the following:

“Warning to progressive visitors!

Beware, one day I’m going to pull you down soon to his level.

And if the dead man still has a function spiritual pecker take a whisz all over you for good measure. It will be the only kind of perservative you are entitled to down here.

Signed,

The dark prince

PS: Great obit brave warrior!

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- justsayin456
  Posted on March 13, 2013 at 9:49am
  With all those grammatical and spelling errors?
  
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HOOT_OWL
Posted on March 13, 2013 at 12:01am
Yeah ,He despised phonies.. LOL but loves Hillary ..! Former government and sociology professor .“He indoctrinated cough ….Taught”… ‘thousands and thousand of Mississippians.’
I would not only say, we lost another Liberal Bastard. Hell gained another permanent resident.

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- RIDEMODELS
  Posted on March 13, 2013 at 12:46am
  Now Satan has got to deal with Buttermilk farts….yuck.
  
  Sociology is nothing like a Calc 3 professor…..Brain-washer to the Max…!!
  
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- Carol in Indy
  Posted on March 13, 2013 at 9:21am
  Hoot_
  A weeee bit harsh for a dead man don’t ya think?
  
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CALLMEMSGT
Posted on March 12, 2013 at 11:53pm
Sounds like a man after my own heart. God bless his family!

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joan k
Posted on March 12, 2013 at 11:27pm
I really liked this guy until I read he was disappointed that he couldn’t watch Hillary be elected president. Then I lost interest.

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- mastice
  Posted on March 12, 2013 at 11:59pm
  Same… but I did finish the whole thing and it was pretty entertaining. (:
  
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john vincent
Posted on March 12, 2013 at 11:26pm
‘Best obit ever’ is quite a stretch, (wouldn’t you have to read them all to say such a thing?) but its pretty darn good- I suppose others may disagree, but the whimsical manner of a girls tribute to her Dad said a mouthful in a few words.

He sounded like a really good rebel, old fashioned, honest, clever, and funny. I felt like I knew him after reading. Good job- and sorry for your loss.

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- RIDEMODELS
  Posted on March 13, 2013 at 12:37am
  Pretty good obit…seems like my dad…..but the buttermilk part…yuck.
  
  My dad loved buttermilk which means I had to drink it, which means I hate it now.
  But my dad also said the problem with society is you cannot trust a man of his word, he hated lawyers and he died on the day we were going to a TeaParty event 9.13.09 , he was in love with Sarah Palin and hated BHO…..
  
  He never got to see how bad this Admin has decimated the Constitution and this great country….But he always told me Obama was a lawyer. He was one of the most honest men I know and he cheapest which makes a perfect conservative.
  
  I love you Dad… :)
  
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- RIDEMODELS
  Posted on March 13, 2013 at 1:10am
  Never mind…..I did not read the Hillary part….My dad hated Hillary and Bill….although my dad had a 25yr old gf at the age of 95 which he thought was neat, it was just a gold digger type deal…..He hated lawyers…..too many lawyers in Washington is the main problem here…..term limits.
  
  and my dad loved all animals and women….but not Hillary.
  This guy most likely wore his wife’s under garments and lipstick.
  
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- objectivetruth
  Posted on March 13, 2013 at 10:38am
  @ridemodels
  He may have worn his wofes clothing.No wonder there was always friction.I can see it now.Dam& it stop wearing my sweaters you are permanently wringing them out of shape.But honey its for the socialology class.Bullsh** you used that line up over ten years ago.Now either stay out of my sweaters or find a new excuse.
  
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