'Til Death Do Us . . . Death, whether sudden or expected, affects us all in different ways, but we deal with the grief in individual manners, sometimes effectively, sometimes not. STORY AND PHOTOS BY DAN SMITH HIGH-PROFILE DEATHS of public figures or celebrities capture a lot of attention, especially when they are local. Consider the automobile dealer and the hospital administrator who lost teenaged sons, and respectively fought drunk driving and established a 70 | MAY/JUNE 2016 charity golf tournament; the wellknown physician whose daughter was murdered and who became a high-profile spokesperson for endangered young women; the public grief of a local TV anchor whose reporter/fiancé was murdered on camera; the local newsTHEROANOKER.COMhttp://www.THEROANOKER.COM