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At 12:28 AM 11/17/2006, Bev wrote:

> I've been watching the online papers for public
> legal notices and obituaries, but a call would probably be more
> efficient.

Something I found out when I moved here:  Obits must be paid for here, and 
by the column inch, no less.  Often folks decide against the expense and no 
obit appears or one appears in only one of our 5 weeklies, or 
whatever.  Especially in a family with fractious tendencies it is very 
likely here that one would have no obit at all, or maybe one put into a 
church bulletin---also something they do here that was new to me---instead 
of the newspaper/s.  IOW, chasing the obit may be futile.

Susan Jane, in Maine