We spoke about the history of the obituary, her love of.

Clinton’s mother, the former dorothy emma howell, was born on june 4, 1919, into poverty and neglect on the same day that congress passed the.

Verkkoshe was remarkably jovial and eager to clarify what it’s like to write about the dead every day.

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Inspired by a joni mitchell lyric, “something lost, something.

Writing obituaries was seen in the news business as a.

Verkkothe joke used to be that the obits desk at a newspaper was where old journalists went to die.

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