Writing that keeps memories alive
(Sacramento Bee) After an uncle out of state died, Sharon Roseme learned the largely untapped power of the funeral notice to capture a life. A retired attorney who lives in Newcastle, she had already begun a second career as Your Personal Scribe, a writer for hire capable of turning out pithy wedding toasts, winning personal ads and straight- forward letters of apology. “I had a lot of relatives dying, and their executors would say, ‘I’d rather you do the obit,’ ” says Roseme, 53. “With some relatives, nobody seemed to know anything about them. You’d go, ‘What was their early life like? What was their first job? What were they like?’ And nobody knew.
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25 Apr
