The writer of this obit seems to have researched and put deliberation and imagination into the piece. You often don’t see such quality in contemporary published obits. I wonder why nowadays capable people sometimes don’t bother to write a decent obituary for a loved one. Yet I’ve also known situations where one sends a nicely home-written obit to a funeral home only to have their staff butcher it and forward a dumbed-down version to the newspapers as part of their “service” to the surviving family. Learning to write obituaries that honor long-deceased relatives or notable townsfolk would be an interesting assignment for high-school English students.
What relation if any was the deceased to Pearl Steele Thompson, educator extraordinaire, who taught generations of New Ipswich kids?
I agree completely with your assessment. The writing style of these early obituaries is beautiful and worthy of time spent reading them. The same might be said of epitaphs which often mentioned cause of death, sometimes in graphic terms... "killed by an axe from his insane brother". Now the grave markers have a name, date of birth and death. They should have a QR code linked to a webpage.
My nephew's headstone has a QR code on it that leads to photos displayed at his funeral and parts of the ceremony. He is buried in the Greenville cemetery off of Rt. 31.
I'm sorry for your loss but it is nice to know that they are using this technology to share memories. I just made up the idea, glad to see it a reality.
The writer of this obit seems to have researched and put deliberation and imagination into the piece. You often don’t see such quality in contemporary published obits. I wonder why nowadays capable people sometimes don’t bother to write a decent obituary for a loved one. Yet I’ve also known situations where one sends a nicely home-written obit to a funeral home only to have their staff butcher it and forward a dumbed-down version to the newspapers as part of their “service” to the surviving family. Learning to write obituaries that honor long-deceased relatives or notable townsfolk would be an interesting assignment for high-school English students.
What relation if any was the deceased to Pearl Steele Thompson, educator extraordinaire, who taught generations of New Ipswich kids?
I agree completely with your assessment. The writing style of these early obituaries is beautiful and worthy of time spent reading them. The same might be said of epitaphs which often mentioned cause of death, sometimes in graphic terms... "killed by an axe from his insane brother". Now the grave markers have a name, date of birth and death. They should have a QR code linked to a webpage.
My nephew's headstone has a QR code on it that leads to photos displayed at his funeral and parts of the ceremony. He is buried in the Greenville cemetery off of Rt. 31.
I'm sorry for your loss but it is nice to know that they are using this technology to share memories. I just made up the idea, glad to see it a reality.