terry ward 's obit reflect his life .
i stumbled across terry graduated my father passed almost 9 years ago and this past april 7th would have been his 70th birthday .
 
the atypical service was held saturday at geisen funeral home in crown point , where his daughter works and where she said her final goodbye to her one - of - a - kind father .
jean lahm , of lowell , did so with smiles , laughter and funny stories about her dad , who died jan. 23 .
“ i wrote it myself and i did n’t tell anyone i was going to make it funny , ” jean said .
– a northwest indiana woman decided the style of traditional obituaries did n’t quite fit her dad ’s personality , so she wrote up one that did .
“ he lived to make other people laugh … it was the only way to honor him properly , ” said daughter , jean lahn , of lowell .
during her work at geisen funeral home , she has seen her fair share of stale obituaries , usually set up the the exact same way .