Johnson-Reddick Obituary Update

The Reno Gazette-Journal got letters from all over the world about the scathing obituary of Marianne Theresa Johnson-Reddick by some of her children. A few are at the link.

Of course the comments following the paper's articles have been numerous and from all over, including a view from a daughter of the obituary writer who criticized her mother for having written it, as she believed the mother had no room to talk when it came to child abuse.

I'm sure we haven't heard the last of this story.

Another problem with obituaries is they are becoming increasingly divorced from editorial oversight thanks to paid obits.

More of Marianne Johnson-Reddick's Dirty Laundry

is coming out into the open. This time, the Daily Mail gets into the act, with one of her sons spilling his guts out:

Patrick told MailOnline that only when he was sure she was not long for this world was he able to sleep well because his terror had finally ended.

He and his other brothers and sisters are now planning a celebration at the end of the month where they will toast the passing of the woman they accused of being a monster.

Patrick, who runs a green energy firm, and his sister Katherine Reddick, 57, a teacher, wrote the scathing obituary which appeared in the Reno Gazette-Journal on September 10. It quickly went viral on the internet across the globe.

Many were shocked that any child could be so cruel about their mother and the newspaper was forced to pull it from the internet.

But the death notice was revenge for Patrick and his siblings who were scarred by decades of abuse.

However, surfing around the internet I discovered that not all of the family members thought the tone of the obit was appropriate.

Next I expect movie and book deals.

The Marianne Theresa Johnson-Reddick Story--Background Information

The Reno Gazette-Journal, following the lead of television station KRNV, decided to do some digging into the background of Marianne Theresa Johnson-Reddick, who received posthumous notoriety thanks to her children's obituary celebrating her death because of her history of child abuse.

The family didn't expect the obit would be a worldwide sensation.

Katherine Reddick, 57, said she wrote the obituary about her mother, 78, who died on Aug. 30 at ManorCare Health Services, a Reno nursing home. Her mother had bladder cancer and had become a ward of the state when she became sick and was hospitalized in May. Her cause of death is unknown.

The two were not in contact.

Katherine Reddick, who today works in education in Texas, described a horrific childhood that she and her brothers and sisters endured. Moved from California to Las Vegas to eventually live in an orphanage in Carson City, she described being abused for years by her mother and in multiple foster homes. Reddick said she slept on the floors of places where her mother ran escort businesses.

She and her brother Patrick Reddick, 58, of Minden said they talked about writing the obituary after learning about their mother’s death. Both are graduates of Carson High School.

I hope they can finally heal from this horrific experience.

There is a whole lot more in this linked story.

While I had issues with my parents, thank God I never went anything remotely like what these people went through. In fact, when I think about my own parents' lives, it's amazing THEY turned out as well as they did given the absolute hardship they went through in their lives.

The Marianne Theresa Johnson-Reddick Story

More and more is coming out about the story behind the scathing obituary which went viral all over the world:





Some people have truly terrible childhoods. Mine was not though there were some moments of stress and strain but nothing truly out of the ordinary.