HALEY, Anna M.

Steamboat Pilot (Steamboat Springs, Routt County) August 4, 1920 Page 1 "WROTE HER OWN OBITUARY ____ Aged Spinster Prepared All but Date Four Years Ago and Left it With Undertakers. ___ New York, -Miss Anna M. Haley, who died at 31 Roseville avenue, New- ark, wrote her own obituary four years ago and left it in care of a firm of undertakers. She asked that it be used just as she wrote it, with the date of her death filled in. Here is part of her obituary. 'Miss Haley has been a great suf- ferer from spinal trouble for many years, and with her brother traveled extensively for health. In the year 1879-1880 they traveled around the world via California, visiting the Sand- which islands, Australia, southern In- dia, Egypt and Europe. 'Miss Haley was born in the city of New York, as were her ancestors for many generations. She was educated in Miss Haines' school, Gramerey' Park."