Although his biographer son largely discounted Laing's account of his childhood, an obituary by an acquaintance of Laing asserted that about his parent – " the full truth he told only to a few close friends ".

An obituary of the Maharishi in 2008 suggested that the global organization consists of close to 1, 000 TM centers and four million practitioners.

Her Times obituary, by Charles Sinker, ended: “ Her close friends remember her as a fierce but fundamentally gentle warrior, a Bunyan-like soul on a lonely and constant quest for the real path of the spirit.

Marley had not wanted his new songs to be associated with Cayman and it had been speculated, including in his obituary in The Independent, that he had put them in the names of his close friends and family members as a means of avoiding the contractual restrictions and as a way to " provide lasting help to family and close friends ".

* ' Barefoot ecologist ' got up close to nature Toronto Globe and Mail obituary

Among his direct legacies were his close involvement with the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs and his mentorship of Middle East scholar Norton Mezvinsky, who wrote a detailed obituary for him concluding:

Thomas ' obituary in the Times was written by fellow poet and long-time friend, Vernon Watkins.

An obituary written by long-time associate and friend Major General Laurence B. Keiser appeared in the October, 1950 issue of " The Assembly ," the magazine of the Association of West Point Graduates.

His friend Richard Schodde, writing Sibley's obituary in Emu, commented that he was:

Johns Hopkins ' views on his bequests, and on the duties and responsibilities of the two board of trustees, especially the hospital board of trustees led by his friend and fellow Quaker Francis King, were formally stated primarily in four documents, the incorporation papers filed in 1867, his instruction letter to the hospital trustees dated March 12, 1873, his will, which was quoted from extensively in his Baltimore Sun obituary, and in his will's two codicils, one dated 1870 and the other dated 1873.

* Edward Frankland, a longtime friend, wrote a 16-page biography of John Tyndall as an obituary in 1894 in a scientific journal.

An obituary printed in the Institute for Historical Review's journal, the Journal of Historical Review, described Schmitz as a " good friend of the Institute for Historical Review ... Schmitz attended at least two IHR Conferences, and was a subscriber for many years to the IHR's Journal of Historical Review.

Padmore's physician friend, Cedric Belfield Clarke, wrote the obituary that ran in The Times, describing Padmore as a writer who wrote books and studied them.

" As a personal friend and colleague of one whose death deserves more than a routine news story and a short obituary, I am writing this letter in the hope that its contents will be made available to the citizens of Louisiana.

In its obituary, The Times described Lester as an “ international conciliator and courageous friend of refugees ”.

Hansen's obituary contends that he " brought both the down-to-earth pragmatism of a lifelong cattle rancher and the affability of a small-town politician to Cheyenne and then to Washington, and he was on friendly and familiar terms throughout his career, not only with those on both sides of the political aisle, but also with elevator attendants, cafeteria workers, and staff members throughout the Capitol who called him friend.

His obituary was by his friend and colleague Brian Inglis.

According to an obituary by his friend Jay Landesman in The Independent of London, in a childhood incident, classmates " wrote the word ' kosher ' in horse-shit juice across his forehead.

The magazine The World's Crisis in the September 10, 1873 issue offered an obituary written by fellow Adventist and personal friend, George Stetson.

William Hogarth is buried in the graveyard of the nearby St Nicholas ' Church, Chiswick ; his fine tomb-monument carries an obituary by his great friend, the actor David Garrick.

A friend wrote in an obituary: " Those who knew Edwards will always remember his erudition and his wicked sense of humour.

On 26 December 1988, an obituary to Carlsson, written by his friend Michael Harrington, was published in the Los Angeles Times.

In the obituary of Michael Andreevich Romanoff, the highest-ranking member of the Russian imperial family at the time of his death in 2008, it was noted that his family spent most of WWII at Craigowan Lodge.

For example, in a 1993 obituary of writer Michael Musto, it stated that shortly after Abbott and Costello teamed up, they paid Musto $ 15 to write the script.

Wyatt is survived by her sons Christopher and Michael Ward ( according to an obituary in The Washington Post, a third son died in infancy in the early 1940s ), three grandchildren and five great grandchildren.

* obituary by Michael Rosen

* Recent obituary for Tongan King also comments on Michael Oliver and the Republic of Minerva ( mental_floss magazine ; 12 September 2006 )

As her biographer and long time admirer, Michael Bowen stated in her New York Times obituary, " She was actually rather sexually naive.

In an obituary for Trow, the novelist and screenwriter Michael Tolkin is quoted as saying that " No Context " is no longer fashionable because " It's not a polemic for change.

Guardian obituary by Michael Billington

In an obituary for MacBride, David Boaz wrote, " In some ways he was the last living link to the best of the Old Right, the rugged-individualist, anti-New Deal, anti-interventionist spirit of Rep. Howard Buffett, Albert Jay Nock, H. L. Mencken, Isabel Paterson, and Lane.

The Los Angeles county coroner death certificate states that Shemp Howard died on Tuesday November 22, 1955 at 11: 35 PST ; confirming that, Shemp's obituary appeared in the November 23 afternoon editions of L. A. newspapers, establishing the night of November 22 as the date of death.

* Howard Morton obituary in Variety ( May 21, 1997 )

Basham, a well-known indologist, wrote in his obituary:

After the death of Mary Hastings Bradley in 1976, " Tiptree " mentioned in a letter that his mother, also a writer, had died in Chicago — details that led inquiring fans to find the obituary, with its reference to Alice Sheldon ; soon all was revealed.

Upon her death, writer Jean Cocteau observed in an obituary, " Her voice, slightly off-key, was that of the Parisian street hawkers — the husky, trailing voice of the Paris people.

As Mel Gussow wrote in Merrill ’ s 1995 obituary: " their friendly competition was an impetus for each becoming a writer.

" Sports writer Red Smith in the New York Times obituary of Dempsey was openly dismissive of the claim.

This deftness of touch was not unrecognized in his own day ; one anonymous obituary writer opined: " Such, however, was the effect of his genius that when he was the happiest man, he will be least remembered ; so closely did he copy nature that his works will be mistaken ".

An obituary notice of Senussi el Mahdi by the same writer appeared in the Arab journal El Iladira of Tunis, Sept. 2, 1902 ; a condensation of this article appears in the " Bull.

In an obituary for the series ' creator, Richard Carpenter, Simon Farquhar of The Independent wrote that Whitehouse " objected to the relentless slaughter and blasphemous religious elements, but was deftly silenced by Carpenter in public when he introduced himself to her and the audience by saying " I'm Richard Carpenter, and I'm a professional writer.

Ruth is living with Charles Digham, a fashion photographer and writer of obituary verses.

The writer of the obituary notice in The Times stated that he was a very religious man who during his last years did much lecturing to young people's clubs and debating societies.

Gore's 1861 obituary in The Times concluded that Gore was " the best novel writer of her class and the wittiest woman of her age.

Dan and the young woman introduce themselves — he is Daniel Woolf, an obituary writer and failed writer who tells her how he and his colleagues use euphemisms humorously in their work in obituaries.

Comics writer and journalist Steven Ringgenberg elaborated on her transition in an obituary / tribute to Jones at The Comics Journal:

The director Marcel Varnel considered the film as amongst his best work, and it was described in 2006 as " a comic masterpiece of the British cinema " by The Times in its obituary for writer, Val Guest.

Not surprisingly, he had written and published his own obituary sixteen years earlier, which read in part, " He was a writer of paragraphs and short editorials.

He had kept working until just three weeks before his death, writing at that time an obituary along with New York Times colleague Charles McGrath of Canadian-born Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Saul Bellow.

His obituary writer David Bidney said that " Paul Fejos had the temperament of an artist rather than a scholar or research scientist ... He supported not only research projects but also, and primarily.

Jack Tagger, aged forty-six, is an obituary writer for the Union-Register ( a fictitious South Florida newspaper ).

Her husband produced an obituary that praised her talents as a writer and her virtues as an individual.

In her obituary in the New Monthly Magazine, she was described as " the able authoress of some of the best romances that ever appeared in the English language ;" in the Literary Gazette she was, " the finest writer in this kind of fiction that ever existed ;" and in the Gentleman ’ s Magazine she was noted to have produced romances that we able to be translated into ‘ every European tongue ’ to the ‘ honor of the country .’

In 1997, Sarah Huttinger, an obituary and wedding announcement writer for The New York Times, travels to Pasadena for her sister Annie's wedding accompanied by her fiancé Jeff Daly.

Levine went into journalism, starting at the Providence Journal as an obituary writer.