RUNNEMEDE, N.J. — A New Jersey woman has used her obituary to make a final request to friends and family: Please don’t vote for Hillary Rodham Clinton for president.
Elaine Fydrych’s husband said Wednesday she was a registered Democrat and not “a political person.”
But he said she grew to strongly dislike Clinton after the deadly 2012 attacks in Benghazi and believed Clinton’s handling of the matter as secretary of state was “terrible.”
A bipartisan report on the Benghazi attack spread blame among the State Department, the military and U.S. intelligence but didn’t name Clinton.
She told him it was up to him whether to include the line about Clinton, but he said he felt he had to honor his wife’s wishes.
The last line of her obituary says: “Elaine requests, ‘In lieu of flowers, please do not vote for Hillary Clinton.'”
Elaine Fydrych was an actress who performed in many local productions and loved to joke and laugh, her husband said.
“She wanted to go out with a punch, and I think she did that,” Joe Fydrych said.
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