[Magdalen] $Obituaries?

[Don Boyd]

The answer to your question is "yes.".   Local practice is that everything printed in the designated obituary section of the paper is supplied and paid for by the funeral home.*   if the newspaper editors consider the death a news event an obituary written by newspaper staff appears in the news section.  (* of course the funeral home passes this cost on to the customer.).  

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On Mar 10, 2018 9:57 PM, cantor03--- via Magdalen <magdalen at herberthouse.org> wrote:
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> My yard handiman whose wife died about ten days ago and 
> whom I mentioned on these pages, indicated that there was 
> a charge of $250 to put in a short obituary in the Scranton 
> paper.  I've written a few obituaries in various locales, and 
> never encountered such a charge. 
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> Do (some) newspapers look on obituaries as a source of 
> revenue? 
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> David S.