Forget about sports or comics. If Kay Powell wrote...  ...wrote for your paper, you dove straight into the obituaries .THE 10 A.M. MEETING WAS ALWAYS THE SAME. That&rsq...  ...stitution, Powell wrote poetic, funny, revelatory obituaries for the following: a moonshiner, the “King...  ...e kept a sign on he...

(Image: CBS)American actor Leonard Nimoy, best remembered for playing Spock on Star Trek, died today at the age of 83. He passed away in his home in Los Angeles as a result of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.In add...

(Photo: David Ebner)Terry Siebert of Hamilton, Ontario died last Monday at the age of 58. His family published an obituary in the Hamilton Spectator. It described at length his loving family and friends and how he impact...

(Photo: Floatjon)Louis Zamperini, 97, passed away after a life filled with extraordinary achievement, resilience, and moral character. He first acquired fame at the 1936 Olympics in Berlin, where he represented the Unite...

Efrem Zimbalist, Jr., an American actor whose work spanned more than 6 decades, died yesterday at the age of 95. Many readers may remember him for his work on the action television shows 77 Sunset Strip (1958-1964) and T...

William Freddie McCullough of Bloomingdale, Georgia died last Wednesday. According to his obituary, he was an expert on living well:The man. The myth. The legend. Men wanted to be him and women wanted to be with him. Wil...

Tim Hopkins of Memphis, Tennessee died last Saturday. His obituary indicates that he's gone home to join legendary race car driver Dale Earnhardt, who died in 2001. Here's the brilliantly written opening sentence of Hopk...

Harry Stamps of Long Beach, Mississippi died a week ago at the age of 80. His cause of death was most likely an overdose of awesomeness, as you can perceive from his obituary:The women in his life were numerous. He parti...

Saying goodbye is hard. Jeff Wysaski honors the pa...  ...sing of his treasured possessions by constructing obituaries

John Fairfax of Henderson, Nevada died at the age of 74. He was the most interesting man in the world:At 13, in thrall to Tarzan, he ran away from home to live in the jungle. He survived there as a trapper with the aid o...