Death, the cliché assures us, is the great leveler; but it obviously levels some a great deal more than others.

That's what an obit is supposed to be-a picture, a snapshot. It's not a full-length biography, it's not a portrait. It's a quick picture.

If you want me again look for me under your boot soles.

Whenever death may surprise us, let it be welcome if our battle cry has reached even one receptive ear and another hand reaches out to take up our arms.

Done to death by slanderous tongues

Death without dread of death is welcome death