As friends and family sat down and prepared to celebrate the life of Shelvy Neal at her Macon funeral, there was a short delay in getting the ceremony started. Shelvy Neal was running late.
Twenty minutes after her service was supposed to start, Neal waltzed down the center aisle at the funeral home to Dolly Parton’s “Here You Come Again.” She wore a black sash with gold lettering that read “Back by Popular Demand.”
Inside a casket at the front of the room, a life-size cardboard cutout of her head and upper body lay atop a pair of pink pajamas…