From roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com Sat Feb 18 17:50:16 2006 Received: from mail.rootsweb.com (mail.rootsweb.com [192.168.65.34]) by admin.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id k1J0oGjb008571; Sat, 18 Feb 2006 17:50:16 -0700 Received: from roots-l.rootsweb.com (roots-l.rootsweb.com [66.43.16.22]) by mail.rootsweb.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k1J0oG0q020906 for ; Sat, 18 Feb 2006 17:50:16 -0700 Received: from roots-l.rootsweb.com (roots-l [127.0.0.1]) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id k1IMLBFI007015 for ; Sat, 18 Feb 2006 17:21:11 -0500 Received: (from roots-in@localhost) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.8/Submit) id k1IMLBDL007014 for roots-approved@rootsweb.com; Sat, 18 Feb 2006 17:21:11 -0500 Received: from lists5.rootsweb.com (lists5.rootsweb.com [66.43.27.41]) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with SMTP id k1IMHcFI006951 for ; Sat, 18 Feb 2006 17:17:38 -0500 Received: (from slist@localhost) by lists5.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) id k1J0kXkj006396 for roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com; Sat, 18 Feb 2006 17:46:33 -0700 X-Envelope-From: ublj@comcast.net Sat Feb 18 17:46:33 2006 Received: from mail.rootsweb.com (mail.rootsweb.com [192.168.65.34]) by admin.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id k1J0kXjb006387 for ; Sat, 18 Feb 2006 17:46:33 -0700 Received: from rwcrmhc13.comcast.net (rwcrmhc13.comcast.net [216.148.227.153]) by mail.rootsweb.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k1J0kU9l019287 for ; Sat, 18 Feb 2006 17:46:30 -0700 Message-Id: <200602190046.k1J0kU9l019287@mail.rootsweb.com> Received: from saturn (c-69-140-95-114.hsd1.md.comcast.net[69.140.95.114]) by comcast.net (rwcrmhc13) with SMTP id <20060219004626m13002f67te>; Sun, 19 Feb 2006 00:46:26 +0000 From: "Joyce D Ubl" To: "'lynne227'" , Subject: RE: [ROOTS-L] Write your own obituary Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2006 19:46:34 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook, Build 11.0.5510 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2180 Thread-Index: AcY04hU50p6EPRt0QmmNSD4BYM4vYAACuqBw In-Reply-To: <000801c634e0$70364000$6501a8c0@LYNNE> X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.52 on 192.168.65.34 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.52 on 192.168.65.34 Sender: roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com My dad wrote his own obituary before he died 16 years ago. BUT - he put it on a floppy for storage. Unfortunately, he had probably 500+ floppies. We never did find what he had written, so had to start from scratch. Do your family, make a hard copy of it as well as storing it on your computer - along with everything you want at your funeral. Make a file called FUNERAL. Then, when the day comes, it will all be there - ready to be used by your family. We have such a file - with selected readings, bible passages, hymns to sing. Hopefully it will make it easier on our family when the time comes. Joyce in Maryland -----Original Message----- From: roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com [mailto:roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of lynne227 Sent: Saturday, February 18, 2006 6:10 PM To: ROOTS-M@rootsweb.com Subject: [ROOTS-L] Write your own obituary and just leave the blanks for the obvious things. That way, you know "they" won't forget anything that esp. wanted people to know about you. I have done this and gave it to my daughter who will settle my affairs when I am gone. That also will make it easy on her. When my husband died suddenly a couple yrs ago, the funeral home wanted an obit immediately and I sat up that night writing it when all I really wanted to do was go to bed and forget the world. Lynne in Texas