RENO, Nev. — Anyone expecting a sweet remembrance of the life and times of Marianne Theresa Johnson-Reddick was in for a surprise Tuesday if they opened the obituary pages in the local newspaper.

“On behalf of her children who she abrasively exposed to her evil and violent life, we celebrate her passing from this earth and hope she lives in the after-life reliving each gesture of violence, cruelty and shame that she delivered on her children,” the scathing obituary begins.

Now circling the globe on the Internet, the obit was written by Johnson-Reddick’s adult children, whose horror stories prompted Nevada to become one of the first states to allow children to sever parental ties in the 1980s.

Johnson-Reddick died at a Reno nursing home Aug. 30 at the age of 79.

Her daughter, Katherine Reddick, 57, said she decided to share the story of their painful physical and mental abuse after consulting with her brother, Patrick Reddick, 58.

The obituary was printed in Tuesday’s editions of the Reno Gazette-Journal.