Florida Woman Gets a Kinder Obituary Rewrite

North Carolina newspaper paints a prettier (and non-plagiarized) picture

Small-town newspaper obituary stories don’t get much stranger than this one.

At the end of June, the Cherokee Scout, a weekly newspaper in Murphy, N.C., published an obituary for June Miller, an 82-year-old Florida woman who owned for many years with her husband Robert a summer home in the area. The obituary contained passages like this:

Drugs were a major love in her life as June had no hobbies, made no contribution to society and rarely shared a kind word or deed in her life.

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