"dxAce" wrote in message
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1997, right? I'll be certain to check it out.


Or check with Tom Vail, the editor of the paper at the time and her
stepson.

Interesting though that 4/23/1997 is a Wednesday (which you say is a
Monday),
whilst the obit that you show was published on Monday 4/21/1997 on what is
obviously an interior page.

I can not read the date, and I do not have the source article at work with
me, as I actually don't carry everything around with me for 24/7 access. If
you say it says the 21st, then you have better eysight than me... it looks
like a 23 to me.


Why would a paper publish an obit on Monday, and then return and publish
it
again on the 'front page' two days later.

Whatever the case, whether it is the 21st or the 23rd, there was a "briefer"
front page news story that day, with a fuller obituary inside. That is
common practice when a notable person dies... it is both news and the reason
for an obit.