KALAMAZOO, Mich. (NEWSCHANNEL 3) - Obituaries are a way to share your story and legacy long after you're gone and an event where you can learn how to write one is happening at a West Michigan library ...

An obituary at its core is a historic record of a life. But a well-written obituary creates such vivid image of the person who died that it makes even readers who did not know the person celebrate the ...

– Robert (Bob) Ahl, 87 of Paso Robles, passed away on Sunday, September 28, 2025. Bob is survived by his wife, Dixie Ahl; ...

Writing the obituary of someone you love is more than sharing the specifics about their final arrangements. It’s an opportunity to capture the essence of a life, to pay tribute to accomplishments and ...

You volunteered (or have been volunteered) to write an obituary. How do you sum up the life of a loved one in a few words? Try thinking of it as putting together a puzzle, one piece at a time. Even ...

When my husband's grandfather died at the age of 96, he had already had taken care of an essential matter of business: He had prewritten his obituary. Maybe it was because he was private and ...

“An obituary should be more about how someone lived versus the fact that they died,” says Victoria Chang, a Los Angeles-based poet and writer who wrote 70 obituary poems in the two weeks after her ...