Grandmother dies, obituary reads 'Ding dong the witch is dead'

This is apparently how one loving grandmother wanted to be remembered, according to a report.

Johanna R. Scarpitti's obituary begins with these words, at her own insistence according to her youngest daughter, Assunta "Sue" Lucy, Delaware Online reported.

Apparently the two shared a love of the Wizard of Oz.

"That was something between us and there was nothing that was going to stop me," Lucy said. "Even if I ended up getting bad reports and people going against me, it had nothing to do with them. This is something she wanted me to do so I did it."

According to the report Scarpitti also wanted to be dressed in black and white stockings and red ruby slippers.

When she died at the start of August, the news came as a shock and sent Lucy hunting for the slippers online.

"I always thought 'Yeah, I'll order them, I'll order them,' " she said. "But I always figured I had time."

Scarpitti's widower, Joseph, has requested his daughters not get to write his obituary.