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Kate Snodgrass's avatar

Excellent advice!!!

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Michael Pointer's avatar

Extraordinary! Was farily after the proofread rejoinder a lagniappe? Thanks, Anne!

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Anne Welsbacher's avatar

Argh! Busted! Where's the redfaced emoticon?!

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Michael Pointer's avatar

Having written my father’s obituary a year ago, I am pleased to have some guidelines for future obituaries.

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Anne Welsbacher's avatar

I'm sorry, Michael. Hope time will work its treatment for you.

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Elizabeth Marro's avatar

Thank you, Anne. One of the hardest things I had to do was write the obit for my dad. I think he would have liked it in the end but I will never know. I thought back to the conversations I had with two journalists who specialized in obituaries and learned so much about how a life's story can be captured, or missed. https://elizabethmarro.substack.com/p/a-story-of-two-obit-writers

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Anne Welsbacher's avatar

Thanks, Elizabeth. What a great profile, and what wonderful writers they were! Thank you for sharing this. I hope others reading my newsletter will take a gander.

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