Our policy on obituaries

The Vicksburg Daily News will never charge you for an obituary. We only ask that the obituary is supplied by the funeral home.

I remember when my mother passed a few years ago, I felt it should have been on the nightly news for several days as the lead story and that the newspaper should have it on the front page. I was disgusted when I found out the newspaper charged us $200 for the obituary, they said it was to cover the cost of running it in the paper.

The death of a loved one is traumatic enough. If your loved one passes away, we will run the obituary supplied by the funeral home at no cost and we will share in your loss, with our sincere sympathy.

Your response (over 1 million reached on social media and close to 3 million ad views per month) has shown us that you want the news and you want it without a slant or an agenda or without a request for money. We work diligently to provide the news to you quickly and accurately. If you ever find a mistake in our reporting we want to correct it so please bring it to our attention. You can message us on our social media pages or you can send it to Info@vicksburgnews.com.

Most of all, we appreciate the people of goodwill in our community who work with us to provide you with the news, without a slant or agenda, daily.