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Article: Former Daily Mail obituary writer dies
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- Charleston Daily Mail
- Article date:
- November 23, 2001
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DAILY MAIL STAFF
Susan E. Sowards, longtime obituary writer for the Charleston
Daily Mail, has died after a long illness.
Sowards died Thanksgiving Day at home.
She joined Charleston Newspapers in 1968 to work in the composing
department and accepted a position as the Daily Mail's obituary
writer in 1983. It was a job that, because of the Daily Mail's
deadlines, required her to arrive at the office as early as 4:30
a.m. and call as many as 70 funeral homes around the state.
Her job gave Sowards a unique perspective on life and death.
Former Daily Mail Editor David Greenfield once wrote Sowards was