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Death of a Golfer: Marge Miley writes own obit, makes sure we know she loved the game

Wednesday, February 22, 2012 Comments
It was only one line, but when Marge Miley, longtime Wisconsin journalist who died this month at 86, provided her newspaper with her own obituary, she made sure that the world of golf knew it had lost one of its own. Seventeen paragraphs in, Miley wrote:

She was a mediocre golfer but loved the game.
 Granted, that line doesn't have quite the zing of her lead paragraph....

Marge Miley has met her last deadline. It is time to write "30" on the story of the life of Marge, history columnist and retired managing editor of the Herald Times Reporter.
But to a golfer it said it all. How many of us wouldn't love that description to be part of our own death notices? 

Count me as one....mediocre golfer who loved the game.
Bob Carney
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