It's been a while since a worthy obit line has shown itself but today we have a story about a different kind of remembrance with a man who places newspaper ads twice a year in memory of his wife, who died 10 years ago next month. It's a bittersweet tale.

Ah, the return of the presidential election year request

In lieu of flowers the family requests donations go to whoever runs against Barrack Obama.

Founder of E.J. Korvette, 91

"Seeing a population of Americans financially better off, impatient to get on with their lives after World War II and susceptible to the advertising shown on the latest new thing, their television sets, he concluded that victory belonged to the very bold." And he was right!

A Renaissance woman

“This [service] is going to be attended by bikers and knitters, attorneys, and doctors and cowboys, artists, craftsmen and regular workaday Joes,” he said. He also expects to see police and firefighters there, because when Mrs. Roberts was done testing recipes, she often dropped off her delicious meals and desserts to police stations and firehouses. (H/T to Joan Lufrano)

Tip o' da iceberg

Lauren also found time to volunteer in her children's grammar school, St. Athanasius, inaugurating "Pasta Day," coaching basketball, creating the French program and collaborating in the yearly student tour to France. (H/T to Joan Lufrano!)

It's a principle and a good one

He enjoyed gardening and would only eat fresh tomatoes that he grew himself; a trait he got from his father.

A final lobster roll

Bruno spent his final weeks surrounded by his family, eating a final lobster roll, listening to Tchaikovsky symphonies, Strauss waltzes, and Gershwin tunes, and he watched Red Sox games. On the easel in his studio is a small canvas of a mountain laurel grove in his back yard. Though unfinished, it is a lovely painting.