Bob CollinsEmily Phillips made sure we’ll remember her even though most of us never knew her. She wrote her own obituary. Read more →
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Tag: The art of the obituary
The Homer Tribune in Alaska and the person who wrote the obit of Donald Malcom Jr., get our admiration in our continuing search for the properly-crafted obituary.
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Thanks to NewsCut reader Nick Pladson, we have yet another entry in our ‘The Art of the Obituary’ collection, in which people who write an obituary depart from the standard template, and give us a better glimpse of a life Read more →
Jenna Langer Vancura, who died on Saturday, wrote her own obituary, which has just been published as the final entry on her blog, The Redhead Report, which documented her 12-year battle with cancer.
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Not at all surprisingly, the obituary appearing in the Star Tribune today for Aaron Purmort, whose ‘crimefighting’ has been well documented on his wife’s blog, is nothing short of perfect.
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George Verley, 80, the former head of Union Gospel Mission, died Friday of liver cancer.
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Rick Bacon is the latest to contribute to our growing of list of obituaries the way they should be written. He wrote his own. Read more →
Walter took care of the hard part: First, writing his own obituary. And then: dying. Read more →
Betty Hornby and Frank Pachuki, my colleague Elizabeth Stawicki relays, were fixtures around Milwaukee. Wherever there was live music — Summerfest, the Wisconsin State Fair, Jazz in the Park, ethnic festivals — Betty and Frank were there doing their ballroom thing. Read more →
Vladimir Putin’s letter to the USA, transparency and Minneapolis crime statistics, ‘Pink’s’ obituary, the long mountain climb for several disabled soldiers, and no child left untableted. Read more →
Devotion over decades is what marriage is all about. Read more →
We have a new addition to our growing list of favorite obituaries. Entsminger Scott E. Entsminger, 55, of Mansfield, died Thursday, July 4, 2013 at his residence. Born January 8, 1958 in Columbus, Ohio, he was the son of William and Martha (Kirkendall) Entsminger. He retired from General Motors after 32 years of service. He Read more →
Nate MinorThe word “sincere” and Stephen Colbert are not usually associated with one another, but there isn’t a better way to describe this clip. Lorna Colbert died last week. Stephen Colbert said this about her in a very good a New York Times profile last year: “She taught me to be grateful for my life regardless Read more →
Vince Flynn died early this morning. He was a best-selling author and a local kid and a bit of a radio star thanks to KFAN’s Dan Barreiro, on whose show he appeared regularly. There are already plenty of news stories around about his death from prostate cancer, but for a tremendous assessment of his life, Read more →
Regular NewsCut readers know how obsessed I am with well-written obituaries. Some of us go through life; others live it, and the well-done final tribute can be a call to recalibrate it. Today’s Star Tribune obituary of Harold Macoubrey Cragg is a perfect example and not to be missed. He died late last month at Read more →