At first glance, Steven Paul Owens’ headstone looks like a touching family tribute, but his children secretly turned the inscription into one final joke honoring their father’s sense of humor. The first letters of seven lines form a hidden two-word expletive, an acrostic that cemetery officials considered inappropriate and controversial, while the family defended it as a personal tribute to the man they loved. Owens died in 2021 at 59, and despite the controversy, his unusual headstone has remained at Warren-Powers Cemetery in Iowa….
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