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Please add a template for obituaries for use
I cannot locate an obituary template on the web that I can modify, print and
use for service. If one exists, please contact me, thanks! ---------------- This post is a suggestion for Microsoft, and Microsoft responds to the suggestions with the most votes. To vote for this suggestion, click the "I Agree" button in the message pane. If you do not see the button, follow this link to open the suggestion in the Microsoft Web-based Newsreader and then click "I Agree" in the message pane. http://www.microsoft.com/office/comm...ocmanagemen t |
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Please add a template for obituaries for use
Your best bet is to read the obituary section of several issues of your
newspaper to get an idea of what items to include and how to word them. Then just start from scratch. The format is immaterial; the funeral home will probably insist on retyping it, anyway, and the newspaper certainly will. If I might make one suggestion, I would recommend that, to the extent you can afford it, you include as much information as possible, especially genealogical data. Be sure to include the person's birth date and place and name his or her parents. This can be of tremendous help to future genealogists. I treasure the obituaries of some of my ancestors that include a lot of detail on all the relatives and of course information about the person's life. Also, for everyone else out there reading this, if you haven't written your own obituary, you should do so, for two reasons: it will help you clarify and focus on what part of your life is important, what you want to be remembered for; and it will ensure that you are remembered for the things that are important to you and not just the things that your next of kin can come up with at a time of great stress. Who will write your obituary if you don't? Your son? Your daughter? Does he or she know enough about your early life to include the history of your career? Especially if you have no family left, will anyone remember anything about you beyond your last few years? Lest you think this is morbid or bad luck, consider that most newspapers and magazines write far in advance and continually update obituaries of famous people so they will be ready when the time comes (see http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/006...lance&n=283155). If you're not a celebrity, no one will be doing this for you, but you can do it for yourself. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Cougar1986" wrote in message ... I cannot locate an obituary template on the web that I can modify, print and use for service. If one exists, please contact me, thanks! ---------------- This post is a suggestion for Microsoft, and Microsoft responds to the suggestions with the most votes. To vote for this suggestion, click the "I Agree" button in the message pane. If you do not see the button, follow this link to open the suggestion in the Microsoft Web-based Newsreader and then click "I Agree" in the message pane. http://www.microsoft.com/office/comm...ocmanagemen t |
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