Obituary: Tornado chaser wants ashes launched into a twister
May 25, 2018
SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (AP) — A Missouri storm chaser told friends in his obituary that he wants them to launch his ashes into a tornado, adding: "That'll be fun!!!!"
Jim "Mad Dog" Sellars spelled out his unique wishes in the obituary he wrote before he died Tuesday. Greenlawn Funeral Home confirmed the death, saying the Springfield man was 64. He'd lived with a heart condition for several years.
The Springfield News-Leader reports that Sellars's older brother, John Sellars, described his brother as a "renaissance man."
Jim Sellars worked more than three decades for a telephone company, served...
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