America’s Greatest Obituary Writer
By Margaret Eby The 10 a.m. meeting was always the same . That ’s whenKay Powellwould gather her staff to ransack through the death notice . These were the short , rote missives from funeral homes and chapels — no bunk , just the unhappy facts , another birth date that now had its declaratory bookend . But to Powell , a newsman atThe Atlanta Journal - Constitution , these were stark naked ingredients ....