Converse of object

• write: Doug Nye is writing an obituary for the BRDC Bulletin.

• publish: For those unable to read Robbie's obituary published in the Telegraph on 13 Mar 04, the online version is available here.

• carry: The Independant newspaper carried an almost full page obituary of Pip on Thursday 31st Aug which you can still read on-line.

• follow: The following obituary was published in the April 2002 issue of the " The Green Howards Gazette " .

• contain: They may even contain an obituary of your ancestor.

Adjective modifier

• brief: A brief obituary of Sir Rowland Hill, originator of the Penny Postal System.

• full: For a full obituary see the Pub notice board.

• own: Hello Boys, Just to let you know I'm still around, in case I read my own obituary.

Modifies a noun

• notice: The very prose of the obituary notice was lyrical.

• column: I confess I am a sucker for obituary columns.

• writer: Barely had Mr Blair sat down than the obituary writers turned their attention to another subject altogether: the chairman of the hated BBC.

• page: Here the obituary pages aren't topped by the word " Deaths " .

• issue: Full coverage of the week's events in Rome will be in The Tablet's special obituary issue published on Saturday 5 April.

Noun used with modifier

• conference: Pemberton's conference obituary refers to his staunch fidelity to Methodist discipline in the face of opposition.