Sherwood Tarlow

[Donna Halper]

Scott wrote--
> This, like the announcement on Legacy.com from the Globe, is not a 
> newspaper obituary. It's a death notice, and those (whether inserted 
> into newspapers free of charge or as paid advertising) are not written 
> by newspaper journalists but by the funeral home and the family. It is 
> understandable, I think, that they'd omit those unpleasant details.

Yes of course.  My original question was why there was no actual obit 
that I could find in the Globe or any other newspaper.  Given his many 
years in the area, I would have thought somebody would have written 
about his life (all the aspects thereof-- both good and bad).