OBITUARY
Christian Louis Hacker Like Mary Stocks, husband and father "Lou" Hacker was quite a junk collector, and he left behind "a hell of a lot of stuff his wife and daughter have no idea what to do with." A caring landlord, the self-described "glorified janitor" was always on the lookout for trash he could turn into treasure for his tenants
Karen Ferry "The thing about writing one's own obituary," Karen Ferry wrote in her obituary, "is that one can go on and on about how wonderful one is." But Ferry mostly went on about the wonderful characters and small details from her life: her aunt's "Avon perfumes in every container you can imagine – one of my favorites was the ice cream cone-shaped bottle that smelled so light and fresh;" her husband, "the darn building inspector;" and the dogs and "the ducks and the cats (that) made us laugh every day."