Grief drove hundreds of people to Ralph’s Chadwick Square Diner on Saturday. But once there, laughter and music beat back any urges to mourn the death of Ralph Moberly with tears.

Heck, everybody cries at a funeral. And Ralph Moberly, whose passing triggered the aforementioned grief, was not the sort of person who merited a traditional or obvious memorial. He deserved — and got — a send-off as colorful and delightfully twisted as the personality he forged and freely shared with a city that will not forget him.

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