Apple death cake

Normally I talk about Sunday dinners but this week was an off week, so we didn't go to the parentals. But I still have an interest thought to relay to you. My uncle died earlier in the week and it got me to thinking about my family and my parent's friends in relationship to food and funerals. You see my parent's are getting to the age were friends and a lot of people they know are starting to pass away, so in turn my mother and her friends are constantly taking food to the bereaving families.
To begin we have the meal/food after the funeral..... which it has now become tradition for everyone to bring their "usual". First we have the mother... she does the fish....it will either be old salmon or white fish... you eat with dill dressing.Or she does sweets, she makes the best lemon squares and chocolate cherry cake. Next you have Mama Pearl, she is in charge of tuna a fish, there is the FL retiree who makes lousy brisket bring the cheese tray. Last but not least there is the Teacher, she brings her famous APPLE DEATH CAKE. Now it is a good cake but she only makes it for funeral..... it is just a weird thing people do for someone who dies.