If you are interested in learning when a death notice or obituary appears in one of the Columbia Gorge newspapers go to the website: http://www.gorgenews.com Click on Death Notices in the upper right column and it shows a monthly listing of names provided by funeral homes chronologically. It lists the Funeral Home submitting the notice. There is a link for notices from October 1999 to November 2001. Notices prior to October 1999 are stored on microfilm at The Dalles-Wasco County Library. I hope this information will help someone. Obituaries are not always submitted by family of the deceased.