OBITUARIES

Find the information you need from the Library’s records of more than 100,000 regional obituaries, with recent records dating back to 2008, and additional records dating back to the early 1900s. 

Search Library Obituaries

This search will return the person’s name, the publication the obituary appeared in, and the publication’s date and page. When you find what you are looking for, use the information you see here to access the full obituary at Central Library or in the online newspaper archive. Get in touch with the Inland Northwest Special Collections team at (509) 444-5338 or insc@spokanelibrary.org.

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FAMILYSEARCH.ORG

A database from the LDS Church providing birth, marriage, and death records, and U.S. Census records. 

PATCHEN OBITUARY FILES

A free obituary index from Spokane papers between 1940-1979 compiled by Lee Patchen.

SPOKESMAN REVIEW OBITUARIES

Search recent obituaries directly from The Spokesman-Review. 

WASHINGTON STATE DIGITAL ARCHIVES

State and local archives with naturalization, U.S. Census, birth, marriage, death, military, and institution records. 

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