Some of us want our ashes to be blown out of a Folgers can onto our friends' faces on an inopportune gust of wind, others simply ask that their remains to be fired out of a giant cannon. The family of Pennsylvania resident David Kime Jr., who died at 88, say they knew exactly what he wanted: one last order of Burger King for the road. And so his funeral procession swung by the drive-thru en route to his final resting place.
"It's nice to know he was a loyal customer up until the end—the very end," Burger King manager Margaret Hess tells the York Daily Record. "He liked his WHOPPER JRs." On Saturday her employees prepared 40 of the sandwiches for the funeral procession, including one that was lovingly lowered down into Kime's grave at Prospect Hill Cemetery in York, Pennsylvania.
"It's nice to know he was a loyal customer up until the end—the very end," Burger King manager Margaret Hess tells the York Daily Record. "He liked his WHOPPER JRs." On Saturday her employees prepared 40 of the sandwiches for the funeral procession, including one that was lovingly lowered down into Kime's grave at Prospect Hill Cemetery in York, Pennsylvania.
Kime, a World War II veteran who was borderline diabetic and had a pacemaker, "lived a wonderful life and on his own terms," his daughter tells the Associated Press. He ate at several fast food restaurants every week. "He would take his Cadillac, which he loved, and drive up to Hanover and have a gut-buster," his daughter recalls, adding that her attempts to get her father to improve his diet fell on deaf ears. "He would say, 'I won't live longer, it will just seem like it because I'll be more miserable faster.' "
Kime died of heart complications on January 20th. (Be sure to check back tomorrow for our followup post about how this was all an ingenious viral marketing stunt.)
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