Colleen, Thank you for checking. I will see if I can get the Palo Alto papers through inter-library loan. Looks like I forgot which county Palo Alto is in. Mike in WA > Did you post to the Santa Clara mailing list also since his place of death > was Santa Clara county? > > I searched the San Mateo times 4/23 - 4/26 1934 which is online through > the Godrey Library and didn't come up with a mention of his death. > I show The Palo Alto News 1926-1938 is available at the CA room of the > state library in Sacramento....also the Stanford Daily and The Palo Alto > Sun Nov 1933 - Oct 1935..... > > A distant uncle - Charles Hugh Rose - died in Palo Alto on Apr 23, 1934. > > What newspaper would provide my best chance of locating his obituary? >