Today, October 2, there was 3 male and 1 female featured obituaries in the New York Times. Since I started tracking it here, that is 261 males featured and 128 females featured. #IfYouSeeSomethingSaySomething
(I started tracking the obits here on May 14 02017, but I’ve missed days when on travel. On travel, some of my stats are from the DC and Seattle versions of the NYT – I don’t know if the obits published vary by region.)
Today, October 1, there was 2 male and 2 female featured obituaries in the New York Times. Since I started tracking it here, that is 258 males featured and 127 females featured. #IfYouSeeSomethingSaySomething
(I started tracking the obits here on May 14 02017, but I’ve missed days when on travel. On travel, some of my stats are from the DC and Seattle versions of the NYT – I don’t know if the obits published vary by region.)
Today, September 30, there was 2 male and 2 female featured obituaries in the New York Times. Yesterday, Sept 29, there were 2 male and 0 female featured obits. Since I started tracking it here, that is 256 males featured and 125 females featured. #IfYouSeeSomethingSaySomething
(I started tracking the obits here on May 14 02017, but I’ve missed days when on travel. On travel, some of my stats are from the DC and Seattle versions of the NYT – I don’t know if the obits published vary by region.)
Today, September 28, there was 1 male and 0 female featured obituaries in the New York Times. Yesterday, Sept 27, there were 3 male and 2 female featured obits. Since I started tracking it here, that is 252 males featured and 123 females featured. #IfYouSeeSomethingSaySomething
(I started tracking the obits here on May 14 02017, but I’ve missed days when on travel. On travel, some of my stats are from the DC and Seattle versions of the NYT – I don’t know if the obits published vary by region.)
Today, September 25, there were 3 male and 2 female featured obituaries in the New York Times. Since I started tracking it here, that is 248 males featured and 121 females featured. #IfYouSeeSomethingSaySomething
One of the female obituaries was for Freddie Oversteegen, Gritty Dutch Resistance Fighter, who died Sept 5, the day before her 93rd birthday. What an amazing badass! From her obit, she was one of a trio who “staged drive-by shootings from their bicycles; seductively lured German soldiers from bars to nearby woods, where they would execute them; and sheltered fleeing Jews, political dissidents, gay people and others who were being hunted by the invaders.”
(I started tracking the obits here on May 14 02017, but I’ve missed days when on travel. On travel, some of my stats are from the DC and Seattle versions of the NYT – I don’t know if the obits published vary by region.)
Amazing life:
Freddie Oversteegen, Gritty Dutch Resistance Fighter, Dies at 92
Freddie Oversteegen was only 14, petite with long braids, when she became an assassin and saboteur.
It was 1940, Germany had invaded the Netherlands, and she and her sister, Truus, who was two years older, had been recruited by the local Dutch resistance commander, in the city of Haarlem.
“Only later did he tell us what we’d actually have to do: Sabotage bridges and railway lines,” Truus Menger-Oversteegen recalled in a 2014 book, “Under Fire: Women and World War II.” “We told him we’d like to do that.”
Then the commander added, “ ‘And learn to shoot — to shoot Nazis,’ ” she said.
“I remember my sister saying, ‘Well, that’s something I’ve never done before!’ ”
Today, September 24, there were 3 male and 1 female featured obituaries in the New York Times. Since I started tracking it here, that is 245 males featured and 119 females featured. #IfYouSeeSomethingSaySomething
(I started tracking the obits here on May 14 02017, but I’ve missed days when on travel. On travel, some of my stats are from the DC and Seattle versions of the NYT – I don’t know if the obits published vary by region.)
Today, September 23, there were 2 male and 1 female featured obituaries in the New York Times. Since I started tracking it here, that is 242 males featured and 118 females featured. #IfYouSeeSomethingSaySomething
(I started tracking the obits here on May 14 02017, but I’ve missed days when on travel. On travel, some of my stats are from the DC and Seattle versions of the NYT – I don’t know if the obits published vary by region.)
Today, September 22, there were 0 male and 2 female featured obituaries in the New York Times. Since I started tracking it here, that is 240 males featured and 117 females featured. #IfYouSeeSomethingSaySomething
(I started tracking the obits here on May 14, but I’ve missed days when on travel. On travel, some of my stats are from the DC and Seattle versions of the NYT – I don’t know if the obits published vary by region.)
Today, September 21, there were 3 male and 3 female featured obituaries in the New York Times. Previously (catching up!), Sept 20, there were 2 male and 0 female featured obituaries in the NYT. Sept 19, there were 2 male and 2 female featured obituaries in the NYT. Since I started tracking it here, that is 240 males featured and 115 females featured. #IfYouSeeSomethingSaySomething
(I started tracking the obits here on May 14, but I’ve missed days when on travel. On vacation, these are the DC and Seattle versions of the NYT – I don’t know if the obits published vary by region.)