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Obituary Requests from Rochester, MN Newspapers

You may submit your obituary copy request by using our online reference question form.

Rochester Public Library staff will search our newspaper microfilm for obituaries if the date of death is known within a two week time period.  Scanned copies are sent free via email, mailed copy charges are 25 cents per page plus postage.  Our staff will search for the obituary and send it within approximately two weeks.

If the date of death is not known, try searching:

• Minnesota Death Index (1904-2001)
  
  
• Social Security Death Index (1962 to date)
  
  
• History Center of Olmsted County databases
  

Obituaries of people who died in Rochester hospitals, but did not live in Rochester will appear in their hometown newspapers, not in the Rochester newspaper.

The Rochester Public Library does not lend our microfilm to other libraries. The Minnesota Historical Society library has microfilm for Rochester newspapers available for interlibrary loan.