Son Targets Anti-Maskers In Kansas Dad's Obituary

SCOTT CITY, KS — Among the hundreds of thousands of Americans to lose their lives from COVID-19, 81-year-old Marvin Farr died after six days in isolation. He died in a room that was not his own, without the comfort of loved ones by his side.

After his death, his son, Courtney, could not contain his anger and frustration toward others in his rural hometown of Scott City, Kansas, many of whom have downplayed the severity of the coronavirus pandemic and spent months railing against mask-wearing.

Courtney let them know in his father's obituary.

“He was born into an America recovering from the Great Depression and about to face World War 2, times of loss and sacrifice difficult for most of us to imagine,” the obituary said. “He died in a world where many of his fellow Americans refuse to wear a piece of cloth on their face to protect one another.”

“He died in a room not his own, being cared for by people dressed in confusing and frightening ways,” the obituary continued. “He died with COVID-19, and his final days were harder, scarier and lonelier than necessary. He was not surrounded by friends and family.”

Though Marvin considered becoming a mortician, he ultimately decided to work as a farmer and veterinarian in rural western Kansas, his obituary said.

“The science that guided his professional life has been disparaged and abandoned by so many of the same people who depended on his knowledge to care for their animals and to raise their food,” his son wrote.

Courtney told The Washington Post he was comforted by the people who shared the obituary and shared their own experiences with the pandemic.

“Often when we experience loss, pain or trauma, we feel so alone,” he wrote on Facebook on Thursday. “And there’s such incredible power to learning that you are not, that someone else also knows.”

The Farrs aren't the first American family to place blame through the obituaries of their loved ones.

In Texas, Stacy Nagy wrote a scathing obituary for her husband, David, that took aim at President Donald Trump and Texas Gov. Greg Abbott.

David Nagy, a father of five, died on July 22 after he was diagnosed with the coronavirus. He was 79.

Nagy said her husband's death was "needless" and that Trump, Abbott and other politicians were responsible.

"The blame for his death and the deaths of all the other innocent people falls on Trump, Abbott and all the other politicians who did not take this pandemic seriously and were more concerned with their popularity and votes than lives," she wrote.

Kristin Urquiza of Phoenix also blamed Trump and Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey in a widely shared obituary written in June.

Mark Anthony Urquiza, who died June 30 at age 65, “like so many others, should not have died,” Urquiza wrote in the impassioned obituary published in The Arizona Republic.

Urquiza added that her father's "only pre-existing condition was trusting Donald Trump, and for that he paid with his life."

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“His death,” she wrote, “is due to the carelessness of the politicians who continue to jeopardize the health of brown bodies through a clear lack of leadership, refusal to acknowledge the severity of this crisis, and inability and unwillingness to give clear and decisive direction on how to minimize risk.”