Steve Buttry blogs about Kay Powell

Read what Steve Buttry has to say about the Society of Professional Obituary Writers' Lifetime Achievemenat Award recipient, Kay Powell, on his blog, "Pursuing the Complete Community Connection."

Common cause of death nicely put

The family of the late Eva L. Grover, widow of a Methodist minister, used an interesting choice of words in the obit that appeared in today's (July 2, 2010) Medina County Gazette in Medina, Ohio, to explain how she died.

Eva L. Grover, 81, stepped into eternity peacefully, Wednesday, June 30, 2010, at West View Manor in Woos­ter, after a valiant fight with the kind of things that just make our bodies quit on us when we get on in years.

Gallows humor from the San Francisco Chronicle, June 30, 2010

Public Eavesdropping

"She made kreplach to die for, and then she died."

Middle-aged lady having lunch with friends, overheard at Zuni by Norman Vogel