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B2G

(9,766 posts) Mon Nov 24, 2014, 02:14 PM Nov 2014

Transgender woman dies suddenly, presented at funeral in open casket as a man

Transgender woman dies suddenly, presented at funeral in open casket as a man

By Steve Rothaus -
srothaus@MiamiHerald.com

11/21/2014 7:02 PM
Updated: 11/22/2014 6:35 PM

Jennifer Gable, an Idaho customer service coordinator for Wells Fargo, died suddenly Oct. 9 on the job at age 32. An aneurysm, according to stunned friends.

Just as shocking, they say, when they went to Gable’s funeral in Twin Falls, Idaho, and saw her in an open casket — hair cut short, dressed in a suit and presented as a man.

“I am disgusted,” Stacy Dee Hudson posted on Facebook. “A great and dear friend’s mom went to the funeral today. It was not closed casket. They cut her hair, suit on. How can they bury her as geoff when she legally changed her name. So very sad. Jen you will be missed and people who know you know that you are at peace.”

Gable was transgender, born Geoffrey, but living the past few years as Jennifer.

Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/community/gay-south-florida/article4055600.html#storylink=cpy

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Transgender woman dies suddenly, presented at funeral in open casket as a man (Original Post) B2G Nov 2014 OP

I wonder if it was her family that did this. uppityperson Nov 2014 #1

The article makes it sound like her father did B2G Nov 2014 #2

Then her father's a piece of shit. (n/t) Iggo Nov 2014 #6

The funeral home operator sounds sympathetic csziggy Nov 2014 #3

How very sad. Gormy Cuss Nov 2014 #4

"A tormented situation for all those involved???" hunter Nov 2014 #5

uppityperson

(115,677 posts)

1. I wonder if it was her family that did this.

Reply to B2G (Original post)

Mon Nov 24, 2014, 03:46 PM

Nov 2014

How sad.

B2G

(9,766 posts)

2. The article makes it sound like her father did

Reply to uppityperson (Reply #1)

Mon Nov 24, 2014, 03:49 PM

Nov 2014

This makes me want to cry.

Iggo

(47,552 posts)

6. Then her father's a piece of shit. (n/t)

Reply to B2G (Reply #2)

Mon Nov 24, 2014, 04:40 PM

Nov 2014

csziggy

(34,136 posts)

3. The funeral home operator sounds sympathetic

Reply to B2G (Original post)

Mon Nov 24, 2014, 04:00 PM

Nov 2014

But then it's his job to be so.

Mike Parke of Magic Valley Funeral Home and Crematory in Twin Falls said Gable’s death certificate listed her as male.

“The death certificate says Geoffrey AKA Jennifer Gable,” Parke said Friday night. “The last few years she lived as Jennifer. They buried him as Geoff. A tormented situation for all those involved.”

Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/community/gay-south-florida/article4055600.html#storylink=cpy

Gormy Cuss

(30,884 posts)

4. How very sad.

Reply to B2G (Original post)

Mon Nov 24, 2014, 04:12 PM

Nov 2014

That the death certificate had her name on it suggests that someone in the family did this knowing full well that she was a woman.

hunter

(38,312 posts)

5. "A tormented situation for all those involved???"

Reply to B2G (Original post)

Mon Nov 24, 2014, 04:29 PM

Nov 2014

Looks to me like there were tormentors and the tormented here.

I don't have much sympathy for the tormentors. The best I can say is they are mean, ignorant human beings. Maybe they'll learn something, but probably not.

RIP Jennifer.

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