This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/WMB.2ACE/4831.2 Message Board Post: If he died in Missouri, you can get his death certificate from the state. Click on birth/death records on left side of page. Even thought the SS death index shows his last residence in St. Louis, that does not mean that he necessarily died in Missouri. Just means that is what his last address was. He could have been across the river in Illinois or vacationing in Florida. http://www.health.state.mo.us/ Once you have the death record, you can request an obit look up at the St. Louis Public Library. See following for more information and item #13 for emailing requests. You need mm/dd/yyyy for the request or a date of burial. http://www.slpl.lib.mo.us/libsrc/geneinfo.htm