We had coffee with some of my hubbys cousins and we were discussing the cost of obituaries published in our local newspaper. A lady known to several of the families obituary was in the paper about a week ago. Gave her name and date service, but not funeral visitation. Two lines long if that long. Well one person checked funeral home web site and a complete one was on there. When my parents and my in-laws passed several years ago, there was not cost to have published in local paper. Another lady's father died about a year and half ago and the cost was $150.00. Today it costs $800.00. Our local paper gets smaller and smaller and they have laid off quite a few of their employees. Nadine

I found the same when my father-inlaw died. I had always assumed the obit free. After that I quit looking at the paper daily to see who died. Newspapers used to be privately owned but today Hearst Publishing probably owns most of them Gale Gorman Houston On Jun 26, 2012, at 1:28 PM, Nadine & Sid Snider wrote: We had coffee with some of my hubbys cousins and we were discussing the cost of obituaries published in our local newspaper. A lady known to several of the families obituary was in the paper about a week ago. Gave her name and date service, but not funeral visitation. Two lines long if that long. Well one person checked funeral home web site and a complete one was on there. When my parents and my in-laws passed several years ago, there was not cost to have published in local paper. Another lady's father died about a year and half ago and the cost was $150.00. Today it costs $800.00. Our local paper gets smaller and smaller and they have laid off quite a few of their employees. Nadine

It also used to be that the funeral home sent the short (not a full obit) death notice to the paper and included the small cost in the cost of the funeral. Then the papers began charging much more for those brief notices and families opted not to pay and there was no notice at all. How foolish of the paper's economics. Wouldn't they be better off with say charging $10 for 10 different two or three-liner announcements netting $100 then charging $25-50 per and none being printed with zero $$$ ??? When a full obit is printed in some cases the family presents it to the funeral director who in turn sends it in. Many folks, (including myself) prefer to send in annual Birthday or Memorials honoring our beloved ones to the paper, which includes the free Legacy page for a year. Good idea to check the funeral home's website. Joanie Joan Parker Immediate Past President JGS of Greater Miami, Inc. Miami, FL ----- Original Message ----- From: Gale Gorman To: Nadine & Sid Snider Cc: roots Sent: Tuesday, June 26, 2012 2:42 PM Subject: Re: [ROOTS-L] newpaper obituaries I found the same when my father-inlaw died. I had always assumed the obit free. After that I quit looking at the paper daily to see who died. Newspapers used to be privately owned but today Hearst Publishing probably owns most of them Gale Gorman Houston On Jun 26, 2012, at 1:28 PM, Nadine & Sid Snider wrote: We had coffee with some of my hubbys cousins and we were discussing the cost of obituaries published in our local newspaper. A lady known to several of the families obituary was in the paper about a week ago. Gave her name and date service, but not funeral visitation. Two lines long if that long. Well one person checked funeral home web site and a complete one was on there. When my parents and my in-laws passed several years ago, there was not cost to have published in local paper. Another lady's father died about a year and half ago and the cost was $150.00. Today it costs $800.00. Our local paper gets smaller and smaller and they have laid off quite a few of their employees. Nadine ===== If you would prefer digest mode to mail mode, drop a note to roots-admin@rootsweb.com and ask for the digest... ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ROOTS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message