A plus-sized Jewish lady redneck died in El Paso on Saturday

December 15, 2021 8:53 PM

Renay was preceded in death by her ex-boyfriend, Larry King. A more disrespectful, trash-reading, talking and watching woman in NC, FL or TX was not to be found…. Please think of the brightly-frocked, frivolous, funny and smart Jewish redhead who is about to grift you, tell you a filthy joke, and for Larry King's sake: LAUGH.
posted by majorsteel (16 comments total)

Have I... heard an interview with her sometime? Maybe on public radio? This all feels weirdly familiar to me.

Anyway, she seems to have been loved by many, and my heart is with them in their time of grief (and loathing :P).

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posted by hippybear at 9:26 PM on December 15, 2021 [1 favorite]

That was a great obituary. She sounds like a gem! I could totally imagine what she was like in life by reading this and it was clearly written with love.

Reminds me of this obituary posted here earlier this year:

Marilyn loved all children who weren’t her own and loved her own children relative to how clean-shaven they were. She excelled at giving the finger, taking no sh!t and laughing at jokes, preferably in the shade of blue. She did not excel at suffering fools, hiding her disdain, and putting her car in reverse.

posted by hurdy gurdy girl at 10:33 PM on December 15, 2021 [5 favorites]

I would like to read the obituary.... but it redirects me to https://eu.fayobserver.com/
posted by Pendragon at 2:27 AM on December 16, 2021 [1 favorite]

This is pretty much a perfect example of “live such a life that someone loves you enough to write this kind of obituary for you,” warts and all, but utterly, visibly, dripping with love.
posted by Ghidorah at 3:18 AM on December 16, 2021 [2 favorites]

Pendragon: I would like to read the obituary.... but it redirects me to https://eu.fayobserver.com/

Here it is on the Wayback Machine.
posted by Kattullus at 3:29 AM on December 16, 2021 [3 favorites]

Sounds like the sort of person who was deeply loved and somewhat hated, usually by the same people and often at the same time.
posted by Xiphias Gladius at 5:46 AM on December 16, 2021 [11 favorites]

"Future obituaries?!?!?"
posted by jenfullmoon at 6:59 AM on December 16, 2021

Loved this. And loved thinking she would have loved it herself.
posted by Mchelly at 7:05 AM on December 16, 2021

My word, that's a beaut of an obituary! Well done, Andy. My condolences.
posted by cocoagirl at 7:09 AM on December 16, 2021 [3 favorites]

That was a thing of beauty, and so was Rosie, I'm certain!
posted by latkes at 7:11 AM on December 16, 2021

Now THAT was a life… sorry I never had the chance to meet her.
posted by rpfields at 1:50 PM on December 16, 2021

"There is only one thing worse than being talked about,
and that is not being talked about."
- Oscar Wilde
posted by thecincinnatikid at 4:54 PM on December 16, 2021

Because she was my mother, the death of zaftig good-time gal Renay Corren at the impossible old age of 84 is newsworthy to me, and I treat it with the same respect and reverence she had for, well, nothing.
posted by doctornemo at 7:17 AM on December 17, 2021 [2 favorites]

Much love to everyone who's (for different understandings of) mourning her loss.
posted by Lexica at 12:22 PM on December 17, 2021 [1 favorite]

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May her memory be a blessing.
posted by Mutant Lobsters from Riverhead at 12:47 PM on December 19, 2021

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posted by wicked_sassy at 12:02 PM on December 20, 2021