This won’t help in locating an obituary, but perhaps the reason no one has been able to help: Often there is no published obituary. I’m finding this to be true more and more. Partly privacy, but also the cost can be pretty steep as they are not usually published for free. From: Linda Holley Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2014 2:23 PM To: calosang@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [CALOSANG] Help finding obits I have asked this same question a few times on this list and have found no one to help me. I think one problem is the number of papers which covers the area. Linda Holley On Mar 19, 2014, at 4:19 PM, <ssshoe@cox.net> wrote: > I am trying to locate 2 obit's and am very confused about where I need to write to to get them. > > One date of death is 1-26-1952 and the other is 1-17-1949 - both in Los Angeles. > > I would assume the obit's would be the day or two after. > > Does anyone on this list have access to the newspapers for those dates or can you suggest where I write to get them? > > Thank you! > > Pam > >