the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
n. One who gives an account of deaths.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
n. One who gives an aecount of deaths; one who writes or prepares obituary notices.
Word Usage
"_Athenæum_ necrologist accorded her half a column of obituary, in which she was described as "this pretty, picaroon woman, whose name can never be omitted from any chronicle of Bavaria.""