Dad passed away on Monday, August 3rd at 5:55 p.m. The deadline for getting an obituary into the local newspaper was Monday at 4:00 p.m. … when he was still alive. So instead, the Caribou County Sun published a notice on Thursday, August 6th that dad had died along with the information about the funeral and the viewings. A full obituary was then printed the following week on August 13th. Since the funeral had already been held when the obituary was published, the funeral service information is written in the past tense.

I’ve scanned the obituary which is displayed on the left. Clicking on the obituary will open a full-sized image in a new window (or tab) and will print nicely on a normal piece of paper.

We had notices printed in the Pocatello paper on Wednesday and Friday with a full obituary on Thursday before the funeral. Their price was $90. We had a notice printed on Thursday before the funeral in both Salt Lake Papers and the price was $185. Printing the full obituary would have been prohibitively expensive.

The price to print the notices and obituaries in the Caribou County Sun? $0.00. That’s right, nada. I like that price a whole lot.