A Salt Lake City man who wrote his own obituary took the opportunity to confess to theft, vandalism and lying about earning a Ph.D.
When Val Patterson learned that he has throat cancer in the fall he started writing his own obituary and took the opportunity to confess to vandalism, theft and lying about earning a Ph.D.
Patterson, who died last week at the age of 59, wrote “As it turns out, I AM the guy who stole the safe from the Motor View Drive Inn back in June, 1971. I could have left that unsaid, but I wanted to get it off my chest,”
“Now to that really mean Park Ranger; after all, it was me that rolled those rocks into your geyser and ruined it. I did notice a few years later that you did get Old Faithful working again,”
“Now, to make it worse, I have robbed my beloved Mary Jane of a decade or more of the two of us growing old together,” Patterson wrote.
He also confessed that the Ph.D. that he has received from the University of Utah was sent him by mistake.
Patterson’s wife confirmed the claims in his obituary.
