West Virginia Obituaries

Other than lending books, there are also many services offered by the Craft Memorial Library, such as obituary searches. The files that have been indexed there include only those of people who died within the immediate area and where the announcement was published in the Bluefield Daily Telegraph. Requests must be made by mail and a fee applies.

The Kanawha County Public Library contains the genealogy resources for the region, allowing you to locate West Virginia death notices that had been published in the Charleston Daily Mail (from 1914 onward) as well as the Gazette (from 1924 to the present). Any requests for copies of the original clippings must be done by mail.

In order to help people to find the right files, the Mary H. Weir Public Library has created an index of all of the obituaries published by the Weirton Daily Times. These have been arranged by year for ease of searching, and once the right name has been found, the information can be sent to the organization in order to receive a copy of the original.

Online newspaper obituary pages that only list a series of stories can be overwhelming for anyone simply trying to find out a little basic information about the recently deceased. Fortunately, the Charleston, West Virginia Daily Mail has a list of the day's death notices listed in alphabetical order. It is also possible to scroll down and read straight through the section.

Sometimes, all you really need to do is read over the obituary section just to make sure that no one you know passed away, but this can be hard when the website is highly detailed or difficult to navigate. The Dominion Post lists the names of the day's deceased in alphabetical order by last name not only on the death notices page, but also on the newspaper's main page, for easy scanning.

Too often obituary pages are limited to only a few people that died in the newspaper's immediate reading area, ignoring sometimes important deaths outside of the community. The Herald-Dispatch in West Virginia recognizes this and includes death notices from the tri-state area. Whether you are looking for information on a deceased individual in Ohio, Kentucky, or at home in West Virginia, this newspaper's obituary page is equally easy to access and search.

Searching for information on the recently deceased with only a name can be difficult and overwhelming, especially when it requires reading through a list of death notices just to find what you need. The Montgomery Herald in West Virginia's obituary page is refreshingly easy to access, providing only a few tabs that direct visitors to other obituary pages, which are organized by date.

Obituary webpages can often be difficult to navigate, especially if you are looking for information on someone who passed away a few days or even weeks previously. The Register-Herald of West Virginia is surprisingly simple, listing only several tabs to different days. From here you can search for a loved one specifically.

As detailed as death notices often are, this is sometimes not all the information that people need after the death of a loved one. In the interest of creating a community of mourners, the Williamson Daily News offers an obituary page that features not only a thumbnail tab for the day's deceased, but also guest books and interactive links that allow visitors to read and post comments.