When she pulled out a letter, everyone gasped. My sassy stepmother and her four adult children wore all white to my dad’s funeral.

At my father’s funeral, my stepmother Vivian and her four adult children shocked everyone by arriving in bright white outfits, claiming it was my dad’s final wish. I was furious—but then his best friend Joe stepped forward with another letter from my dad.

As Joe read it aloud, Vivian’s smug expression vanished. The letter revealed that while my mother cared for Dad during his illness, Vivian and her kids were absent—except when they wanted money. Even worse, Dad had discovered they were stealing from him.

He asked them to wear white—not to honor him, but to expose them. The guests gasped. Vivian tried to deny everything, but no one believed her. Joe told them to leave.

Humiliated, they stormed out. The funeral continued in peace, a true tribute to a man who—even in death—knew how to make a statement.