[Magdalen] $Obituaries?

[Lynn Ronkainen]

My mom’s obit in the Houston chronicle was less then 2”, priced by the line, narrow column and was $175. I was amazed. Funeral homes often handle this cost while adding it to the package price. I did not go the funeral home route. 
Lynn

On Mar 10, 2018, at 10:59 PM, Brian Reid <brian at reid.org> wrote:

When Cynthia McFarland died in 2014 I handled the estate etc.
What I found then was that if a newspaper thought that a person was newsworthy they would print the obituary free of charge; if not, they would charge at approximately the same rate as an advertisement. The Philadelphia Inquirer felt that her life was newsworthy and published it free. The Burlington County Times did not.