text: 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. 
   
   
   
  
target: – 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.)