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Posted by YoHo1975 on Wednesday, December 27, 2017 3:33 PM

NP Eddie


ALL:

My intention of the first post was to call attention to the large obituary (paid or not) of EHH. I do not like large flowery obituaries, listing all the accomplishments the person had done in their lives. Such large obituaries are tacky in my opinion.

Ed Burns

 

 

But it isn't an obituary. It's a news item written by the news desk and so it's telling the story of someone that readers may not know. It's entirely appropriate. 

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Posted by BaltACD on Wednesday, December 27, 2017 3:22 PM

wanswheel
His wife and daughters didn't do anything wrong, therefore should be allowed to put a loving obituary in the paper. Nobody who hated him has to read it.

http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/chicagotribune/obituary.aspx?pid=187582496

Suspect he treated his horses better than his employees.

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Posted by wanswheel on Wednesday, December 27, 2017 2:13 PM

His wife and daughters didn't do anything wrong, therefore should be allowed to put a loving obituary in the paper. Nobody who hated him has to read it.

http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/chicagotribune/obituary.aspx?pid=187582496

 

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Posted by ROBERT WILLISON on Wednesday, December 27, 2017 11:47 AM

Isn't it time to lay off ehh. If you want to be critical of what he did professionally fine, but being critical of any persons obit,is a bit over the line.

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Posted by Norm48327 on Wednesday, December 27, 2017 11:34 AM

Ed,

My obit will simply read "Bye Norm".

Norm


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Posted by NP Eddie on Wednesday, December 27, 2017 9:32 AM


ALL:

My intention of the first post was to call attention to the large obituary (paid or not) of EHH. I do not like large flowery obituaries, listing all the accomplishments the person had done in their lives. Such large obituaries are tacky in my opinion.

Ed Burns

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Posted by SFbrkmn on Tuesday, December 26, 2017 3:28 PM

I agree w/ Eddie. Just glancing at it and not reading in detail, way too much written of information that mean much ado about nothing for Joe Trackside. My wife is a Methodist pastor and deals w/death. Many people have advanced obits already written up. The length and what is submitted is from that person or family members and pastors can and do help write them. Mine....very small limited in scope. A single paragraph. No boring details of a boring guy from KS. 

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Posted by charlie hebdo on Friday, December 22, 2017 8:46 PM

CSSHEGEWISCH

I saw the obit in the Trib.  It was a regular news item, not a paid death notice.

 

Well, they should have realized it is news, not a paid Death Notice.  But there is so much venom on here about EHH, folks will say anything, no matter how ridiculous and erroneous, out of spite.

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Posted by Convicted One on Friday, December 22, 2017 8:02 PM

I sent a nice bouquet of Man-in-the-moon marigolds

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Posted by CSSHEGEWISCH on Friday, December 22, 2017 8:01 AM

I saw the obit in the Trib.  It was a regular news item, not a paid death notice.

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Posted by Murphy Siding on Thursday, December 21, 2017 2:29 PM

I'd imagine that was paid for out of the $84,000,000.

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EHH obituary
Posted by NP Eddie on Thursday, December 21, 2017 2:26 PM

ALL:

I read EHH's obituary in the "Chciago Tribune". It was one and one half columns (at least). That lengthy obituary cost a lot of money and that money could have been donated to a charity instead of proclaiming the entire history of EHH's life.

Ed Burns

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