“His brother, Andrew, and sister, Allie, wrote his obituary,” said Alex’s mother, Penny Hesse. “And they felt it necessary to let other people know this drug kills.” Obituary for Alex Michael Hesse Alex Michael, age 26, of Harrison. Passed away on January 29, 2015. He was born on December 1, 1988 in Cincinnati, Ohio to […]

A couple days ago I shared a review and endorsement for Shawn Smucker’s children’s novel, “The Day the Angels Fell.”  Here’s chapter 1: I am old now. I still live on the same farm where I grew up, the same farm where my mother’s accident took place, the same farm that burned for days after […]

Norma Brewer, 80, had been wheelchair bound for over a year, so you can imagine her family’s surprise when they read a prewritten obituary that she submitted to the funeral home before her death: Norma Rae Flicker Brewer, a resident of Fairfield, passed away while climbing Mount Kilimanjaro. She never realized her life goal of […]

Mental_floss wrote an article documenting the premature burial of four individuals.  This one is especially interesting: … 19-year-old Frenchman Angelo Hays “probably the most remarkable twentieth-century instance of alleged premature burial.” In 1937, Hays wrecked his motorcycle, with the impact throwing the young man from his machine headfirst into a brick wall. Hays’ face was so […]