‘Ta-ta and farewell’: wisecracks and tears as Brisbane sends Jack Karlson off to ‘succulent Chinese meal’ in the sky

Jack Karlson, pictured earlier this year. On Monday a funeral service was held in Sumner, Brisbane for the larrikin crook, who died aged 82. Photograph: Jamila Filippone/The Guardian

When, on Monday afternoon, an 82-year-old man was buried in a cemetery on Brisbane’s south-western suburbs, one of the three burning questions for those not in the know was: which name would mark his final resting place?

Would it be the name he was given at birth: Cecil George Edwards?