Author: Debra G. Dudley
Debra G. Dudley is an editorial assistant/copyeditor at the Amarillo Globe-News. She was born and raised in Amarillo, Texas.
A Tale of Three Funerals
Between 1993 and 2001, death claimed much of my immediate family: my only child, my brother, my brother-in-law, my father, and my recently widowed sister’s thirty-five-year-old son. My mother died in 2006. That’s a lot of dead folks—nontheists and skeptics all—for whom to make the ultimate arrangements in a place that’s none too skeptic-friendly. Perched …