A Connecticut family whose prankster father recently passed away just sent him off with a hilarious obituary that is now going viral.

Joe Heller spent his entire life pranking others before he passed away last Sunday at the age of 82. Afterwards, Monique Heller, who is one of his three daughters, paid tribute to him by writing a funny obituary that is making the entire world laugh.

“My dad has an unorthodox view of life, and I wanted to honor him and make people smile,” Monique said after the obituary went viral.

The article recounts how Joe, who was born during the Great Depression, lived a life of “frugality, hoarding, and cheap mischief, often at the expense of others.”

“When the doctors confronted his daughters with the news last week that ‘your father is a very sick man,’ in unison they replied, ‘you have no idea,’” the obituary jokingly says.

From the time he was born, Monique wrote that Joe loved “torturing his siblings through a childhood of obnoxious pranks, with his brother, Bob, generally serving as his wingman.”

Joe did everything from play inappropriate games like “Ding Dong, Dogs—” to pranking school lunch bullies with “laxative-laced chocolate cake and excrement meatloaf sandwiches.”

“He named his first dog, ‘Fart,’ so [his mother] would have to scream his name to come home if he wandered off,” Monique wrote.

Later on, while working as a self-taught chemist at Cheeseborough-Ponds, Joe met his wife Irene. Monique joked that it’s surprising to this day that Irene agreed to marry him.

“[Irene] was hoodwinked into thinking he was a charming individual with decorum. Boy, was she ever wrong,” the obituary states. “Joe embarrassed her daily with his mouth and choice of clothing. To this day we do not understand how he convinced our mother, an exceedingly proper woman and a pillar in her church, to sew and create the colorful costumes and props which he used for his antics.”

Joe did not stop pulling pranks when the couple welcomed their three daughter. In fact, the pranks escalated, especially when the girls started dating.

“During their formative years, Joe made sure that their moral fibers were enriched by both Archie Bunker and Benny Hill. When they began dating, Joe would greet their dates by first running their license plates and checking for bald tires,” Monique wrote. “If their vehicle passed inspection, they were invited into the house where shotguns, harpoons and sheep ‘nutters’ were left clearly on display.”

Briefly changing tones, Monique wrote in the obituary, “what would have made him the happiest is for you to go have a cup of coffee with a friend and bulls— about his antics or play a harmless prank on some unsuspecting sap.”

However, that seriousness did not last long.

“Everybody has a Joe story and we’d love to hear them all,” Monique wrote. “Joe faced his death and his mortality, as he did with his life, face on, often telling us that when he dropped dead to dig a hole in the back yard and just roll him in. Much to his disappointment, he will be properly interred… next to his wife.”

“Sorry, Mom, Lisette and I did the best we could to take care of him and keep him out of your hair as long as we could,” she added jokingly. “Back in your court now.”

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