You could call it a cruel prank.
Early Tuesday morning Susan Aguirre says she was woken up by her frantic husband.
“He told me my mother had passed away. I said how can you say that? He said it's right here in the newspaper," she said.
In an obituary for her mother, 72-year old Jeanette Cooperrider, it says the visitation is scheduled on Friday from 5-7 and it also says she'll be buried at 9:30a.m. at the Desert View Cemetery.
Problem is, she isn't dead.
And she was just as shocked as anyone when she saw her so-called passing printed in the paper.
"I got up this morning and was taking a shower and everyone was standing there saying that I'm dead! I'm not dead!"
So you're probably wondering who would call the paper and pay for a fake obituary in the first place?
Well, we don't really know.
The El Paso Times told us they can't release that information.
Aguirre thinks it may be the work a disgruntled family member.
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