AUBURN, Ala. (AP) — A family grieving the death of an Alabama-born woman has a request for friends and relatives: Don’t vote for Donald Trump.
Relatives of 34-year-old Katherine Michelle Hinds published an obituary Friday in the Opelika-Auburn News that includes the line: “In lieu of flowers, do not vote for Donald Trump.”
Hinds’ mother, Susan Pool, says her daughter didn’t like the presumptive Republican nominee for president and feared for the future of her three young children if he’s elected.
Pool says her daughter would have liked the anti-Trump message in her obituary although they never talked about the possibility.
Hinds died April 29 near Seattle, Washington, where she had been living. Her father, Allen Hinds, says an autopsy is being performed to determine the cause of death.
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Done, and sorry for your loss.
Roll Tide.
Reminds me so much of my grandmother (G-d rest her soul). She loved me with all her heart, but was a staunch Republican. Most of her family was GOP office holders going back generations.
(Fortunately, it’s not genetic.)
In the 60s, before Dick’s comeback, she corresponded with Pat Nixon. In the 70s, she lunched with Quayles. She went to her grave convinced Nixon was framed.
As a child, she once took me to visit family graves, when nature called. It was a rural cemetery without facilities, so she directed me to a certain grave and said, “Pee here.”
When I asked why, she replied, “He was a Democrat.”
(I chose a large tree elsewhere.)
Can we have an amen to that?
Was she a Daughter of the Confederacy member? Those ladies are still angry that the Union did not pay to bury the rebels in a decent grave.