Background – Maureen (our honorary contributing editor!!!) wrote: Scott’s mom died four years ago this Saturday and it reminded me of a S.C.O.U.T. that occurred at her funeral. We were at the cemetery and the burial service had ended so we were wandering around looking at headstones. There are many people from my hometown buried there so it was interesting to see familiar names. I came across a pair of gravestones with the names Reverend Schultheis and his wife Mary Schultheis. At first I was taken aback as I didn’t know that Reverend Shultheis had passed. Then I noticed that the dates under his name were not complete. His wife had her birth year and death year, but the Reverend’s headstone only had a birth year. I realized that this was just his plan to be buried next to his wife, but that he must not have passed away yet.
S.C.O.U.T. - A few days later I was reading our local hometown paper and, as always, I browse the obituaries to see if we lost anyone we knew, or their parents (it’s a small town thing!). In the paper Reverend Shultheis was listed in the obituaries…. He had died the day we buried Scott’s Mom, and the day I was at the cemetery looking at his grave! The only personal connection I have with him is that I went to school with his kids, but this was spooky to say the least!
Funeral S.C.O.U.T.s.... they always give me the chills.
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