'He attracted more women than a shoe sale at Macy's': Obituary of Georgia ladies' man 'Freddie' charms the nation



Obituary paints a colorful life of a father and companion

Eulogy is both touching and quirky

Life is full of colorful characters and sometimes it's not until someone has died their true qualities are recognized.

William 'Freddie' McCullough , a Bloomingdale, Georgia man died last week at the age of 61, however his spirit is living on in an obituary published in the Savannah Morning News.

One thing that becomes evident from reading the tribute is Mr McCullough was a life-loving ladies’ man.

He adored the ladies: William 'Freddie' McCullough (pictured). His obituary claims the man from Georgia loved women, but hated veggies

'Freddie adored the ladies. And they adored him. There isn’t enough space here to list all of the women from Freddie’s past. There isn’t enough space in the Bloomingdale phone book. A few of the more colorful ones were Momma Margie,

Crazy Pam, Big Wanda, Spacy Stacy and Sweet Melissa (he explained that nickname had nothing to do with her attitude).

Writer: The obituary was written by Freddie's son, Mark, who knew that he had to write something in the style in which his father lived his life

He attracted more women than a shoe sale at Macy’s. He got married when he was 18, but it didn’t last. Freddie was no quitter, however, so he gave it a shot two more times. It didn’t work out with any of the wives, but he managed to stay friends with them and their parents.'

Mr McCullough’s son, Mark, wrote his obituary, and felt that a traditional style would simply not be appropriate for his father.

“Our dad was a unique and special guy,” McCullough, who is the oldest of Freddie’s six kids, told the Morning News. “I wanted to do things differently to honor him with an obit that fit him.”

'Freddie was killed when he rushed into a burning orphanage to save a group of adorable children. Or maybe not. We all know how he liked to tell stories,' the obituary stated.

The obiturary goes on to talk about Freddie's likes and dislikes.

'Freddie loved deep fried Southern food smothered in Cane Syrup, fishing at Santee Cooper Lake, Little Debbie Cakes, Two and a Half Men, beautiful women, Reeses Cups and Jim Beam... What he hated vegetables and hypocrites.'

'His talents? Building his house from the ground up, growing fruit trees, grilling chicken and wings and popping wheelies on his Harley Davidson motorcycle — at 50 miles per hour — among other things like hitting Coke bottles at thirty yards with his 45.'

Off to heaven: Freddie was buried along with a packet of Reeses and bottle of Jim Beam



Mark McCullough, who recently moved back to the Savannah area from Los Angeles, is a television producer and is planning on developing a TV show based on his dad’s 'life’s adventures.'

He is modest when discussing the praise he’s received for writing about his father.

'I can’t take credit,' he said. 'I just wrote down what happened.'

At Freddie’s funeral last Thursday, his children placed Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups and a bottle of Jim Beam into his coffin.

His six kids, wearing their Harley T-shirts and jeans, got on their motorbikes to lead the procession to the cemetery.

'All of us kids, we know our dad,' Mark McCullough said. 'He was the kind of guy who would just get the biggest thrill out of this.'

The obituary left out his fathers age and didn't explain how his dad died. He did tell a local newspaper that he had been ill for month.