In a message dated 10/29/2005 12:48:24 PM Eastern Standard Time, njadams@cinci.rr.com writes: Obits are wonderful when they give info, but as with any information, it's only as good as the person who gave it. And even then it's not always correct because whoever enters the information for printing can make mistakes. When my father died I wrote the obit, however, several papers use a service which takes the information and rewrites it. They totally screwed up. Had him born in a city and state in which he never set foot in his life. This city and state weren't in the obit I wrote. Where they got it is unknown to this day.

At 10:23 PM 10/29/2005 -0400, you wrote: > >In a message dated 10/29/2005 12:48:24 PM Eastern Standard Time, >njadams@cinci.rr.com writes: > >Obits are >wonderful when they give info, but as with any information, it's only as >good as the person who gave it. > > > >And even then it's not always correct because whoever enters the information >for printing can make mistakes. When my father died I wrote the obit, >however, several papers use a service which takes the information >and rewrites it. > They totally screwed up. Had him born in a city and state in which he >never set foot in his life. This city and state weren't in the obit I >wrote. >Where they got it is unknown to this day. That's true. I've seen the local paper have to reprint obits sometimes twice because they really messed it up the first time. It makes a person wonder if they have any proofreaders! Norma