The Florida Panty Snatcher" is making his final road trip Saturday inside a sage-green casket picked to match the color of his last 18-wheeler.
Tom P. Farrell, 64, of West Palm Beach, died of natural causes this week, and before he did, he had a simple request: Make sure his obituary identifies him by his CB radio handle, The Florida Panty Snatcher.
"The lady at the funeral home was shaking her head and smiling," said his sister, Cecelia Sommers. "But most of the other truckers who know him, just know him by that name."
Farrell, who grew up in West Palm Beach, started driving trucks when he was 18 and spent most of his life as a long-haul trucker driving tractor trailers across America.
"He been in every state but Hawaii," his sister said, "and he said he'd drive there if they put a road to it."
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