About

My name is Mark Kemp, and I live in Winnsboro, Louisiana.

When my dad died in 2025, it was one of the hardest weeks of my life. I was asked to write his obituary, and as I sat down to write something that would be read at his service, printed in the paper, and kept by people who loved him — I had no idea where to even start. Being asked to write something so important to my family, right after losing him, was extremely tough.

It was during that time this idea was conceived. I was determined to help as many people as I could, so they would not be burdened with such an important task during their difficult time. Truly built for the moments when the words don’t come easy.

Why this site exists

Somewhere tonight, someone is sitting where I sat. They have a blank page in front of them, a funeral home waiting on them, and a head full of grief that makes ordinary sentences hard to finish. Most of them have never written an obituary before and never expected to.

That is who this site is for. Every obituary it writes is built only from what you tell it about your person, and every word of it is yours to change.

The one rule that matters

When I began building this, I made an early version of the writing tool and tested it by filling in my dad’s details, the way a family would. It handed back an obituary containing a middle name that was not his and a church he never belonged to.

I caught it, because I knew the facts. A family at two in the morning, exhausted and grieving, might not. And a wrong detail in an obituary does not quietly get corrected — it is read aloud at the service, printed in the newspaper, and kept in a drawer for thirty years.

So the tool on this site is built so that it cannot do that. If you leave something blank, it stays blank. It will never fill a gap with a guess, however plausible the guess would sound. No fact invented. Ever.

Why it is free

It is completely free, and there is no account to create. Nobody is asked for a card, and there is no version you have to pay for to get the good one.

The site is paid for by advertising on some of its pages. There is none at all on the form where you write about your loved one, and there never will be. That page belongs to you and to them.

Who is behind it

Just me. I am not a funeral director, a grief counselor, or a company. I am one person in north Louisiana who had to do this himself and thought it should be easier for the next family.

If something here is wrong, or if there is something the site should do and does not, I would genuinely like to know. You can reach me on the contact page, and a real person — me — will read it.