The E-Sylum:  Volume 10, Number 51, December 16, 2007, Article 29

ON LATE DEATH NOTICES IN THE ANA NUMISMATIST MAGAZINE

Dave Lange writes: "The November issue of the American
Numismatic Association's Numismatist magazine included a
premature death notice for Howard Daniel III.

"This kind of error works both ways in that a death notice
may also appear years after a person has passed. Around 1990
The Numismatist published a death notice for member Clifford
Bloom of San Francisco. I had known Cliff reasonably well,
and I knew that he had died five years earlier. Since his
involvement in numismatics was more than casual, having been
a member of the Junior Coin Collectors of San Francisco as
a child in the 1930s and a long standing member of the Pacific
Coast Numismatic Society until his death, I believed that
his passing deserved more than just an abrupt notice.

"I wrote a long and detailed obituary for him that I submitted
to Editor Barbara Gregory in the expectation that this would
be published in an upcoming issue. Instead, she wrote back to
me stating that the ANA had only recently learned of Cliff's
death. As a life member who had no direct heirs, he continued
to receive his copies of The Numismatist monthly for years
afterward. It was only then that some family member notified
the ANA that he was no longer alive, so his death notice was
published when received."

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  Wayne Homren, Editor

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