This past weekend, I mentioned the obituary archives maintained by the Corpus Christi Public Libraries. I noted that the Libraries’ Local History Department will respond to e-mail requests for scanned copiees of archived obituaries from the Corpus Christi newspapers.

So I tried the service, e-mailing a request for two obituaries (one from 1951, and one from 1989). And three days later [remember, it was Saturday that I sent my e-mail], I received both via reply e-mail with a nice message from Veronica Martinez of the Local History Department. Now that’s customer service!