MURPHY, N.C. — A family is searching for the person responsible for writing a scathing obituary of a woman that said her “presence will not be missed by many.” 
 
 Cornelia June Rogers Miller died in February, WTVC reports. Nearly four months later, an obituary posted by the Cherokee Scout in Murphy, North Carolina, is making its way around social media. 
 
 Miller lived in Florida and had a summer home in Murphy. 
 
 The obituary reads, in part, “Drugs were a major love in her life as June had no hobbies, made no contribution to society and rarely shared a kind word or deed in her life. Please let June Miller’s life be a cautionary tale. Addiction and hatred are no es bueno for the living. 
 
 “We speak for the majority of her family when we say her presence will not be missed by many, very few tears will be shed, and there will be no lamenting over her passing.” 
 
 HAVE YOU SEEN THIS?! This obituary was posted in the @theScoutnews over the weekend. What do you think about it? pic.twitter.com/v2JGzWOCaE — Stephanie Santostasi (@Stephanie_NC9) July 3, 2017 
 
 Upset, Miller’s son Robert responded to the obituary, saying it’s untrue. 
 
 Robert Miller blamed the writing on his sisters, although one sister said she didn’t write it, and called the obituary tragic and sad. 
 
 After the obituary appeared, a viewer contacted WTVC to say it appeared some sections were plagiarized. Several sections are similar to the 2008 obituary for Dolores Aguilar ran in the Vallejo Times Herald in California. 
 
 “Unbelievable. [She] doesn’t even have the integrity to write something for herself – just goes out and steals something,” Miller told WTVC. ||||| Cornelia June Rogers Miller passed away in February of 2017, but her recent obituary has gone viral, stirring up controversy in her family and online. (Image: Robert Miller) 
 
 FOLLOW-UP: 
 
 On Thursday, we reported that this obituary had been partly plagiarized from a 2008 obit notice that appeared in a San Francisco newspaper. Watch the update here. 
 
 PREVIOUSLY: 
 
 Obituaries are published in newspapers every day, but you've probably never read one like the one you're about to read. 
 
 Friday, the Cherokee Scout in Murphy, North Carolina posted an obituary for Cornelia June Rogers Miller. 
 
 
 
 She lived in Florida, but had a summer home in Murphy - a small town where the views are breathtaking. 
 
 June and her husband visited often. 
 
 "Once my father retired, they would go up to Murphy pretty much whenever they liked to. They would go for a weekend in the winter," said Robert Miller, June's oldest son. 
 
 Miller says it wasn't until last year that his father had to sell the summer home in Murphy. It was becoming too much for the couple to make the drive from Florida. 
 
 Eventually, they both ended up in an assisted living facility. 
 
 "He was actually her roommate at the facility," Miller told NewsChannel 9. 
 
 According to the obituary in the Cherokee Scout, June died in February. 
 
 "She was 82 years old, I believe, so she had a variety of complications," Miller explained when we asked how she passed. 
 
 It wasn't until last week though, nearly four months after her death, that the obituary showed up in the paper. 
 
 Part of it reads: "There will be no service, no prayers, and no closure for the family she spent a lifetime tearing apart." 
 
 We sent it to June's son. 
 
 "The whole thing is just sad," Miller said. 
 
 
 
 It most obituaries, you find a message honoring a person's life. That's not the case here. 
 
 Another part read: "Drugs were a major love in her life as June had no hobbies, made no contribution to society and rarely shared a kind word or deed in her life." 
 
 It goes on to say: "We speak for the majority of the family when we say her presence will not be missed by many." 
 
 As we showed the obit to people in Murphy, they couldn't believe it. "Yeah, it's disturbing," said one man. 
 
 So, who wrote the obituary about June? We still don't know. 
 
 But, June's son Robert has an idea. 
 
 "It's unbelievable that my sisters would write this," he said. 
 
 We tracked down one of his sisters, but she says she didn't write it either. 
 
 She called the obituary very tragic and very sad. 
 
 
 
 "It's really sad that they don't have anything better to do," Miller added. 
 
 Robert just hopes the memories his father and mother shared in Murphy won't ever be forgotten, and wants his mother to be remembered as a loving, generous woman. 
 
 Miller tells us he sent a new obit to the paper that will run next week. 
 
 We wanted to know if the Cherokee Scout considered rejecting the obituary. When we asked, publisher David Brown said, "the family's will overrode the editor." 
 
 Brown told us the paper does look through each obituary and they feel they should only edit something if there is a very compelling reason to do so. 
 
 Brown wouldn't say who sent the original obituary in. ||||| PORTLAND, Maine — Ryan Bossie’s obituary could have said he died “unexpectedly.” But the 26-year-old from Caribou, a reserved and inquisitive man who took pride in working with his hands, saw death coming. 
 
 Bossie died on Jan. 30 from a presumed heroin overdose. He had cheated death during six previous overdoses, but the addiction that gripped more than half of his life finally claimed it. 
 
 The first draft of his obituary simply stated that Ryan had died, his brother Andrew Bossie of Portland recalls. But Andrew — who had witnessed Ryan’s battle to overcome the disease firsthand after his younger brother moved to Portland to get clean — added the reason why. 
 
 “I just said I don’t think we should be ashamed of this,” said Andrew Bossie, 31. 
 
 “It’s better than sweeping it under the rug and I think if it helps someone else, then fantastic,” he added. 
 
 The rest of the family agreed to take the rare step of disclosing addiction as the cause of death. Ryan, the youngest of three siblings, had spoken openly about his struggle and attempts at recovery, his older brother said. 
 
 “We talked about Ryan’s death before he died,” Bossie said. “That was really important, I feel, to being able to keep our family close and have Ryan feel supported.” 
 
 Acknowledging the reason behind Ryan’s passing kept that honesty alive. 
 
 ”Ryan Douglas Bossie died in Portland,” his obituary read, “after losing a hard-fought battle with addiction.” 
 
 “It was truly a struggle,” Bossie said. “I hope that by including that maybe it helps someone else just a little bit, that their story has a different ending.” 
 
 Death by drugs is an all-too-common ending in Maine. In 2013, overdoses and related abuse claimed 176 Maine lives. Drugs killed more of the state’s residents than car crashes that year. 
 
 Of those drug deaths, 105 were attributable to prescription opioids and 34 were caused by heroin, according to the Maine attorney general’s office. Heroin deaths have risen dramatically since 2011, when the drug killed seven people in Maine. 
 
 As doctors prescribe prescription narcotics — such as OxyContin and Percocet — more cautiously and drug makers produce harder-to-abuse formulations, the street supply dwindles, experts say. That drives up prices and spurs some addicts to turn to cheaper and potentially much more potent heroin. 
 
 Further upping the stakes is the increasing presence of heroin laced with fentanyl, a painkiller that’s 50 times more powerful and dangerously drives heroin to the brain “on a rocket booster,” as one substance abuse expert described. 
 
 The Bossies are still awaiting Ryan’s toxicology results and remain unsure whether fentanyl played a role in his overdose. 
 
 “I talked to him about the statistics,” Bossie recalls. “I said, ‘Ryan, when you use there’s one of two different paths you’re going to be on — you’re either going to end up in jail or you’re going to end up dead. And he knew that. But this was an illness.” 
 
 Ryan’s death bears striking similarities to the demise of another young man whose frank obituary has circulated widely on social media. Alex Michael Hesse of Cincinnati, Ohio, also 26, died the day before Ryan as a result of heroin addiction. Both men had brothers named Andrew and fathers named Rick. 
 
 “Alex had a loving and supporting family and had everything a young man could want. But drugs took a hold of his life, changed him, and destroyed so much of the hope and promise in his future,” Hesse’s obituary reads. 
 
 His online obituary has generated nearly 4,000 hits on Facebook and crashed the server at the funeral home, said his mother, Penny Hesse. People from across the country reached out to the family to share their experiences with addiction and loss, she said. 
 
 “Many people said they were ashamed to say why” their loved ones died, Hesse said. “It doesn’t discriminate.” 
 
 The family detailed Alex’s struggle in the obituary in hopes of shedding light on the issue and saving even one family from the same devastation, she said. 
 
 Alex, one of four siblings, was a music lover and high school athlete just one semester away from graduating with a psychology degree, she said. 
 
 “This happens in every neighborhood, whether you live in the slums or you live in a nice home in the suburbs,” Hesse said. 
 
 The Bossies also heard from many others touched by addiction, both in their community and beyond, Andrew said. Five weeks after Ryan’s death, the family still feels the disclosure was the right choice, he said. 
 
 “It was not only a public dialogue with Ryan’s obituary, but it was also a very personal dialogue that existed between Ryan and those closest to him in his life,” Bossie said. 
 
 Ryan, who also had a stepbrother, would have approved of their decision, the family believes. Andrew Bossie’s partner even once asked Ryan what he’d want his obituary to say, as Ryan cycled between months-long bouts of sobriety and descents into abuse. 
 
 “This is how open we were about what was going on,” Bossie said. “Ryan said, ‘I don’t know.’ But I think the more Ryan could be honest with people … it allowed us to move on to other things, like his hopes and dreams.” 
 
 Ryan’s obituary relates more than simply how he died. A Caribou High graduate who hoped to complete his welding certification at Northern Maine Community College, Ryan worked maintaining properties up north and later in Portland. 
 
 Brenda Norris, who hired Ryan to repair her flooded basement, said he loved to learn and paid close attention to detail. Charmed the first time she met him, she got to know Ryan as he repaired the basement and fixed her kitchen cabinets, she said. 
 
 Norris continued her relationship with Ryan even after learning about his addiction, when he landed behind bars for using drugs again. She and Andrew Bossie, who since have grown close, visited Ryan in jail together. 
 
 Two days before he died, while working in her kitchen, Ryan asked Norris what she was most afraid of, she said. 
 
 “It’s dying and leaving people that I love,” Norris told him. “I said, ‘What about you?’ and he said, ‘My addiction.’” 
 
 Even as he struggled, Ryan always offered a helping hand while expecting nothing in return, said his sister, Kaitlyn Umphrey of Wade. He played affectionately with her little Yorkie dog and eagerly awaited the day when Umphrey had children so he could share his love with nieces and nephews, she said. 
 
 “He was very loving,” said Umphrey, a nurse at Cary Medical Center. “He would do anything that you asked him.” 
 
 She just wishes her brother could meet her future kids one day, she said. 
 
 “He would be a really good uncle,” Umphrey said. “That’s one of the only regrets I have, that he’s not here to share with us the rest of his life.”
– In the Deep South, a predilection for proper manners often means the temptation to tell someone off is replaced with a "Bless your heart." But an obituary that appeared last month in a North Carolina newspaper flouted politeness, and at least one family member isn't happy, KDVR reports. The death notice for Cornelia June Rogers Miller, who died in February, ran in Murphy's Cherokee Scout newspaper, and it wasn't a flattering depiction of the great-grandmother, who "died alone after a long battle with drug addiction and depression." "Drugs were a major love in her life as June had no hobbies, made no contribution to society, and rarely shared a kind word or deed in her life," the obituary says. "We speak for the majority of her family when we say her presence will not be missed by many, very few tears will be shed, and there will be no lamenting over her passing." All of which has her son, Robert Miller, fuming—and he thinks he knows who placed the obituary. "It's unbelievable that my sisters would write this," he tells WTVC, noting his mom was a "loving, generous woman." WTVC managed to track down one of his two sisters, and she tells the station she didn't write the obituary, calling it "tragic." To make matters worse, it appears parts of the obituary may have been plagiarized from one written for someone in California in 2008. "[She] doesn't even have the integrity to write something for herself," Miller says, apparently referring to the sister he thinks trashed their mom. The Cherokee Scout publisher says the paper scans all submitted obituaries but notes they won't change anything unless there's a solid reason. "The family's will overrode the editor," he says. Miller says he sent in a new obituary to replace the printed one. (It's not the first scathing obituary.)