an article about somebody’s life and achievements, that is printed in a newspaper soon after they have diedan obituary column/noticeWordfindernewspaperarticle,columnist,editorial,feature,headline,journalist,newspaper,obituary,review,supplementOxford Collocations Dictionaryverb + obituarywrite,print,publish,…obituary + nouncolumn,notice,page,…Seefull entrySee related entries:JournalismWord Originearly 18th cent.: from medieval Latin obituarius, from Latin obitus ‘death’, from obit- ‘perished’, from the verb obire.
See obituary in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionary
