Man Receives His Last Whopper Jr. During His Funeral Procession

By Gil Aegerter, Staff Writer, NBC News

Credit: YDRSundayNews Jason Plotkin

Linda Phiel places a Whopper Jr. on the casket to be buried with her father David Kime, Jr. on Saturday, Jan. 26, 2013. Phiel and other mourners went through the drive through at Burger King and each got the hamburger in his honor. YORK DAILY RECORD/SUNDAY NEWS--JASON PLOTKIN

January 27, 2013 Updated Jan 27, 2013 at 11:18 AM PDT

A Pennsylvania man who died at age 88 was buried Saturday -- but not before a stop at Burger King on the way to the cemetery for a Whopper Jr.

The York Daily Record reported that David S. Kime Jr. of West York loved those burgers -- along with other fast food -- so his family and friends followed the hearse through the drive-through window at the Manchester Burger King. The manager said 40 Whopper Jr. burgers were prepared, including one for Kime, who died Jan. 20.

"He always lived by his own rules," Linda Phiel, one of Kime's three daughters, told the Daily Record. "His version of eating healthy was the lettuce on the Whopper Jr."

Phiel said her 5-foot-tall father was a borderline diabetic for years and had pacemaker, but he began eating what he wanted after his wife died 25 years ago, according to the Daily Record.

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