Don't write still persists. Still is superfluous.
Make it noon, not high noon.
VITAL STATISTICS
In writing obituaries the reporter must use the greatest care, for it is very easy to offend the family of the subject of the obituary. Avoid the conventional euphemisms.
- Prefer:
- body to remains
- send body to ship body
- coffin to casket
- flowers to floral offerings
- funeral to obsequies
- widow to wife
- burial to interment
- the dead man to deceased or defunct
- Avoid:
- the late
- late residence
- solemn black
- sable hearse
- last sad rites
Marriage is a state. The ceremony is a wedding. Don't marry the man to the woman. The woman is always married to the man.
Don't say a marriage was consummated.
Funeral means interment. Write: Funeral services were held at the church and burial was in Evergreen Cemetery.