Nearly everyone reads the paper, at least scans the front page, local news and sports, but some actually study the obit page. The obituaries chronicle not just the rich and famous, but also the lives ...

Marilyn Johnson clearly loves obituaries. She shadows them daily in U.S. and British newspapers and on Web sites maintained by fellow obit devotees. Is this obsessive? Maybe. But obituaries, done well ...

LITTLE ROCK — One of best-read and most important features in the daily newspaper is the obituary page. Or, on most days, pages. But obits come in four different ways in the Democrat-Gazette and they ...