Tombstones, Movie Stars and Stuff Like That

A few months ago Jay and I decided to pick out our tombstone.  We headed down to Warsaw, Illinois where the monument business is located, and is also coincidentally the home of my old high school.  The owner (let's call him Perry) was a classmate of my sister.  He confessed that when they were in school he had a very bad crush on teen film star Haley Mills, and that my sister reminded him of Haley.  I'm just guessing, but I'll bet Perry had a crush on my sister too.  This is Haley in film in case you don't remember her. 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qUnnCXJwoIk 
Here she is back then and now.    

So because of his fondness for her, Perry decided to memorialize Haley by carving her name on a tombstone as an advertisement of the business' craftsmanship.  I find this immensely funny for some reason-- "I like you so much that I think I'll put your name on a grave marker!"  Wait a minute though Perry................Haley is still alive! 


 

 

Okay I bet you are wondering just how much my sister really resembles Haley Mills.  Well here she is then and now, so you can decide for yourself. 

 

 

 

I don't know about you, but I think my sister may be holding up just a little bit better than Haley is, and thankfully she doesn't have her name on a tombstone!  

 

Hey, I just remembered that an old high school friend of mine said I reminded him of Shelly Fabares (pronounced fab-ray), a pretty much now-forgotten star. One of these pictures is of Shelley and one is of myself as a newly-graduated college student--see if you can tell which is which! 

 

 

Here is Shelly on the Donna Reed show singing "Johnny Angel".

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIuYd0GzMjs    

 

As you saw in the picture at the top of this post, I do have my name on a tombstone.  Fortunately though, so far there is just one date on it!  We were very, very pleased with the job Harrison Monuments did for us.  Thank you for that Perrry, as well as for providing fodder for this blog post!