"Allen" <allen@nothere.net> wrote in message news:47ab4808$0$8676$4c368faf@roadrunner.com... | Christopher Jahn wrote: | > clifto <clifto@gmail.com> wrote in | > news:4olr75-8ks.ln1@remote.clifto.com: | Incidentally, my files are full of obituaries in which female relatives | are identified as Mrs. John Smith, Mrs. Bill Brown, Mrs. Franklin | Johnson and so forth; sometimes that also served as the only | identification of the dead person. Very frustrating, and in my opinion | just one more example of how women were belittled in earlier times. All | the women in my family were worthy of being recognized as themselves, | but too few gained that respect. | | Allen Allen, One of my greatest peeves about this area of the country (South Louisiana)! The ladies are even known as "Mrs. Jack" BABIN, or "Mrs. Ursin" MATHERNE during their lifetimes. Even the graves identified them this way. Lately, however, things they are a-changin', and they are being given their due respect. But, as you say, some parents/grandparents are still identified in the obits as "Mr. & Mrs. So-And-So." Henry Brownlee Houma, Louisiana