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Utah man uses obituary to confess indiscretions

Published: July 17, 2012 5:51 PM
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

A 59-year-old Utah man who wrote his own obituary before he died last week used the opportunity to come clean.

Friends and family of Val Patterson learned Sunday that the man they thought held a doctorate from the University of Utah received the degree thanks to a paperwork mistake and that he never even graduated.

Patterson died from throat cancer on July 10. KSL-TV reports he wrote...

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