Shoe by Gary Brookins and Susie MacNelly for September 17, 2023

Unless the services are held in Cleveland…..

Haven’t heard from Mort in a long time.

I heard that she’d rather be in Philadelphia.

Houston, you have a problem!

The Houston morticians should have listened to Mort and sent Betty in a carrion bag.

“You Stab ’Em – We Slab ’Em”

Ashes to ashes, Betty to Phoenix.

That’s just like Betty. It’s almost as if she planned it this way. She was late for almost everything.

People were always saying, “She’d probably be late for her own funeral.”

Shipping human remains via air cargo has been a thing for years. My grandmother was shipped from Charlotte, NC to Philadelphia in 1999.

You’d better be “late” to your own funeral.

If you want a free funeral, die out of state. My daughter in law asked NY police to find her missing uncle. She didn’t know they won’t look out of state. When no one claimed the body in NJ, the police never used his ID to find relatives in NY; and they buried him, no charge.

Yes, yes, the ol’ “late for her own funeral” gag — but nobody has yet asked if Betty Carrity is a real person who wanted to get mentioned in a comic strip or something like that?

Which airport? There are two. Hobby and Bush International.

the final procrastination

Don’t ask. Just…don’t….ask.

I’m donating my body to the University Medical Center. I don’t even want to attend my own funeral. Just say the prayers for me when l leave….

The train would have been better. . . .

There was a mix-up with Betty’s paperwork and she became the dearly deported.

That’s so Betty.

My father was late for his own funeral. The hearse got lost.

I believe it was in an early Diamond Lil strip where she is talking to the little boy neighbor about her late husband who was late for his own funeral because the hearse threw a rod.