to wonder about this?

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"X died peacefully on XX. ......Most highly respected father to A and B, treasured dad to C, D and E"

Highly respected father V treasured dad?

No I dont know the family, but saw this in tonights local paper and am just curious!

THey are the exact words btw, it was the "most highly respected" v "treasured" that made me wonder more than the father v dad.

My mate reads the obituary's too-why???

As to your question, dunno perhaps the other 3 weren't that keen? Or maybe A & B got the worth a fortune family business & other 3 just got a bit of cash?

A&B by blood and C,D&E by marriage or other way round?

Re-married, A and B from first wife respected him but didn't have him around and C, D and E from 2nd wife got more of his time and view him as a treasured dad, maybe?

Hmmm, all of you have made good points.

Smells of second wife point scoring to me....

Could A and B be dead? Therefore not around to 'treasure' him?

Btw the Obits are old school iin our paper, so you get hatched (born) matched (married) and dispatched (died) on the same page.

I read them because I used to see people I knew getting married and then having kids, now I see more people passing away than anything else :(

Could be fairy but in our paper it would usually say "father to the late A and B" I think it is in code, but you would have to know him to know what it meant.

My husbands step mother refused to allow anyone to be involved in his funeral planning and on the day the priest talked about "Wife and son of her and husbands father and the extended family" The extended family being my husband (the eldest), his 3 sisters, 2 half brothers and 2 grandchildren"

That was wrong! My husband step mother refused to allow anyone to be involve in his FATHERS funeral planning.

A&B children from first marriage, didn't see much: 'respected father'
C,D,E from second marriage, grew up with him so a 'treasured dad'

Or maybe A & B are adults and C,D & E are still children???