This is how I hear about my great grandma dying:

Sorry to hear about Grandpa Stofflets Mom passing away. I just happened to go on the Beaver Dam newspaper website today and seen it.

http://www.wiscnews.com/bdc/obituaries/445257

They are not having anything for her. They are meeting at a bar and then going to the cemetery later this month. She had cancer for awhile and she recently started refusing treatment and then she broke her hip. She was in a coma for a while and then she was moved to a retirement home. No one even called to tell me she wasn't doing good.