Family and friends prepare for Tuesday burial after mother and two daughters were killed in the UK
A Tuesday burial is set for a mother and her two daughters whose killings in the United Kingdom have drawn sympathy from family notices shared
A Tuesday burial is set for a mother and her two daughters whose killings in the United Kingdom have drawn sympathy from family notices shared online this week. The notice is one of several family tributes appearing in local media and digital memorial pages, where mourners can leave messages and remember loved ones from afar.
Funeral notices published on Tuesday, August 4, included a remembrance for Janette Anne Johnson, known as Jan, who died peacefully at home on Sunday, August 2, 2026, at 56 Stobo Street in Invercargill, surrounded by family and dogs. She was described as the loved and treasured wife of 51 years to Henry Johnson, known as Rusty, and as a fierce protector and mum to Kane and Todd, Raiha and Rebekah.
Local notices keep families connected
The notice appeared on whatsoninvers.nz, a South Island community service that posts acknowledgements, death notices and in memoriams across Invercargill, Southland, Central Otago, Queenstown and the wider South Island. The site says it publishes daily updates from Monday to Saturday and keeps tributes accessible to friends and relatives near and far.
That growing shift to online notices has changed how grief travels. Families no longer rely only on a printed page or a church noticeboard. A message can now reach relatives overseas in seconds, and remain online as a permanent tribute. For scattered families, that matters. A lot.
A tradition that now lives online
Other UK local-news sites carry a similar role. Cornwall Live, Gloucestershire Live, Somerset Live, Bristol Post and Devon Live all highlighted funeral notices this week, pointing to a long-standing tradition of publishing death announcements in local media and then mirroring them on funeral-notices.co.uk. Each notice, they say, stays online permanently for memories, photographs and donations.
That model has become part obituary service, part community archive. It gives grieving families a public place to say goodbye and gives friends a place to respond, even when they live continents apart. In a case involving a mother and two daughters killed in the UK, that reach can be the only way some relatives learn details in time to act, travel or simply send support.
whatsoninvers.nz says notices should be emailed as text, Word documents or PDFs on the day families want them published. The service is free, supported by local advertisers, and aimed at keeping communities connected during what it calls life’s most meaningful moments.
The Tuesday notice for Janette Johnson closes with the kind of detail families often hold onto most: she died peacefully, at home, with family and dogs beside her. The burial is set for Tuesday.
