Obituary Template printable pdf download

Obituary Template

The following headings are meant as a general guide. You can decide what you would like to include

and what order you would like to use.

NAME / ANNOUNCEMENT

• Full name of the deceased, including nickname, if any

• Age at death

• Residence (for example, the name of the city) at death

• Day and date of death (remember to include the year)

• Place of death

• Cause of death

LIFE

• Date of birth

• Place of birth

• Names of parents

• Childhood: siblings, stories, schools, friends

• Marriage(s): date of, place, name of spouse

• Education: school, college, university and other

• Designations, awards, and other recognition

• Employment: jobs, activities, stories, colleagues, satisfactions, promotions, union

activities, frustrations,

• Places of residence

• Hobbies, sports, interests, activities, and other enjoyment

• Charitable, religious, fraternal, political, and other affiliations; positions held

• Achievements

• Disappointments

• Unusual attributes, humour, other stories

FAMILY

• Survived by (and place of residence):

Spouse

Children (in order of date of birth, and their spouses)

Grandchildren

Great‐grandchildren

Great‐great‐grandchildren

Parents

Grandparents

Obituary Template