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Category Archives: Obituaries

My two favorite topics: obituaries and radicals

May 3, 2022

Should people be frozen in time, remembered for their worst moments? Think of your worst moment: is that how you’d …

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Elie Wiesel: Blessed Be His Memory

July 2, 2016

One of the things I miss about working at the newspaper is covering major figures who rolled through Mankato. I …

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Who knew his first wife was so famous?

December 2, 2014

My friend Kara turned me on to this obituary that appeared recently in the Minneapolis StarTribune. Occasionally you see obits written …

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Mr. Locksley’s obituary

February 9, 2014

I’ve not ever been one to pass over a finely written obituary. One of the reasons I like the Sunday …

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