Death Notice: A brief notice of a person’s death including: Name of deceased, age, city of residence and/or former city of residence, date of death, visitation, memorial/funeral service and burial information. Death notices are provided free of charge as a reader service by the Record-Eagle for current, former or longtime seasonal residents of our 13-county area: Antrim, Benzie, Charlevoix, Cheboygan, Crawford, Emmet, Grand Traverse, Kalkaska, Leelanau, Manistee, Missaukee, Otsego and Wexford.

Paid Obituary: Contains as little or as much information as the family may desire. Charges are by the vertical column inch as follows: Monday through Saturday editions - $14.05 per inch; Sunday edition - $18.05 per inch. Information must be provided in writing by fax at (231) 946-8632, or e-mail to obits@record-eagle.com. Be sure to include your name, address and contact information. Prepayment is required for an obituary to be published. Information must be received by the Record-Eagle by 4 p.m. each day. The obituary clerk may be reached directly at (231) 933-1470 for further information or to schedule an appointment if you wish to provide the obituary in person.

Since all posted deaths must be verified, all requests for death notices and obituaries must be sent through a funeral home or accompanied by the name and phone number of a funeral home, mortuary or cremation center. Obituaries and death notices will not be published without confirmation of name of deceased and date of death.

You may include photos in print at no extra charge, and a flag will also be included in print at no extra charge for veterans.

While obituaries are paid for by the family, the Record-Eagle has established guidelines for style and content uniform with the rest of the newspaper, and we reserve the right to decline to publish anything that is not consistent with these standards.

The text of all obituaries and death notices appearing in the Record-Eagle are also published on this Web site.