Somebody said: “She got one for Doug in her purse.”
Somebody else said: “All the plot twists. We read it from cover to cover. Tryna add and subtract dates and ages. Also, trying to figure out who are all the extra names listed and who was left off.”
If I shared five a week, it would take me more than three years to highlight every funeral program (or as some of us like to call them, “obituary”) in my growing collection. The earliest date to the 1950s — simple, typed mimeographs that bear little resemblance to today’s full-color, multi-page, photograph-filled productions. Funeral programs are crucial resources for African-American genealogy and community history — save me one!
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