Giving out the address was common for newspapers. Life/people were different then. We now live in a crazy world– gated communities for the common folk.
I’ve heard of one person whose deceased mother’s home was burglarized after her address ran in a TNT obituary around 1980. Crime rings probably helped end the practice, at least in obituaries.
The papers seemed to stop doing it without much fanfare. More ink was spilled on discontinuing Mrs./Miss/Ms. before women’s last names on later references in an article. That actually got explained in editor’s columns and was gone by the late ’80s.
If you remember the movie “Paper Moon”, Ryan O’Neal used addresses of the deceased published in the newspaper obituaries, in order to peddle his bibles to surviving family.
January 15, 2023 at QZVX
Jason Remington says:
Giving out the address was common for newspapers. Life/people were different then. We now live in a crazy world– gated communities for the common folk.
January 17, 2023 at QZVX
T.K. says:
I’ve heard of one person whose deceased mother’s home was burglarized after her address ran in a TNT obituary around 1980. Crime rings probably helped end the practice, at least in obituaries.
The papers seemed to stop doing it without much fanfare. More ink was spilled on discontinuing Mrs./Miss/Ms. before women’s last names on later references in an article. That actually got explained in editor’s columns and was gone by the late ’80s.
January 17, 2023 at QZVX
Jason Remington says:
If you remember the movie “Paper Moon”, Ryan O’Neal used addresses of the deceased published in the newspaper obituaries, in order to peddle his bibles to surviving family.
February 3, 2021 at QZVX
kjrol says:
Burl seemed to be satirizing the Boss Jock of the mid-1960s, with a wink to the radio audience. It was fun to listen to him
February 6, 2021 at QZVX
Jason Remington says:
I think you are spot on, kjrol.