Gabriella Bonham, then 15, went to Diane Sweeney’s funeral last year after learning that attendees would have a shot at winning Sweeney’s car in a raffle.
Friends of Diane Sweeney's family raffle off her 2016 Volkswagen Beetle on Sept. 25 at Resthaven Funeral Home in Oklahoma City. Gabriella Bonham's name was drawn from the more than 100 people who attended. Most of the people at Diane Sweeney’s funeral had never met her. As she lay in an open casket last year, dozens of strangers packed Resthaven Funeral Home in Oklahoma City, hoping to benefit from her final wish: to raffle off her most prized possession in the world.
Over the following months, Gabriella mostly forgot about the funeral, and when she did think about it, she assumed someone else had won the car. In the year-plus since, Gabriella turned 16, got her driver’s license and, as she’d predicted, inherited Beige Betty, the Ford Edge that has now been the first car of the three eldest Bonham sisters.“I was babying it so nothing bad would happen,” she said, “and we were just praying for another opportunity to get another car.
For years, Sweeney had jokingly or in passing mentioned giving away her car at her funeral. About a month before she died, she’d broached the subject more seriously with Ingram, her nephew. Sweeney thought it might attract friends she’d made while living all across the country over the decades. She also wanted to say goodbye through a final act of generosity with a humorous twist.
The whole thing was very Aunt Diane, Singleterry added. Sweeney had always been a big supporter of her nieces and nephews, slipping them extra money here and there or sending them trinkets in the mail, part of her deep involvement in their lives. When Singleterry or her cousins visited the New York City area, where Sweeney lived in the mid-2000s,In 2015, Sweeney moved to Norman, Okla., to be closer to family, and when she got there, bought a new Volkswagen Beetle.
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