“He was very direct: if he didn’t like you, he wouldn’t talk to you,” explains the man’s daughter. “It was not our intention to hurt people. We hope everyone can see the humor in it.”
But the undertaker in Polk County in the US state of Iowa would rather lose the headstone with text than get rich. You’d just lie next to that swearing forever, it sounds in Camp Township. Owens passed away on September 2, 2021, but the cryptic grave text is only now penetrating.
Local media enjoy the fuss and freely throw puns on it (‘grave mistake’ – a serious mistake), although they blur the ‘cursing’ part of the text so as not to offend American readers. ‘Hidden Message on Polk County Headstone Causes Concern’, headlines KCCI.
On the tomb is written, in this order:
forever in our hearts,
until we meet again,
cherished memories.
known as
our brother,
father, daddy, uncle,
friend and cousin.
Steven Paul Owens was 59 years old.