Free Obituary Info

This site was developed and written and is maintained by Devanie M. Angel. I am a California-based writer/researcher/Web publisher who followed up a degree in journalism with more than 15 years of professional experience as a newspaper reporter and editor. I have written obituaries, covered funerals as a reporter and, without paying a fee, have successfully located obituaries in online and library archives, as well as used obits to find living people for research, newswriting and family-reunification purposes.
I started FreeObituary.info in June 2007 after seeing a need for a free site that would provide a variety of information to people seeking to write, find or otherwise make use of obituaries.
If you are writing an obituary for a loved one, have been commissioned to write an obit for someone you don’t know or even if you want to write your own obituary, this is the site for you. Journalists will also find some tips here, including how to write an obituary that reveals someone’s true personality, and how to cover a funeral with color and tact. If you’re in search of a published obituary, please make use of the insider tips on researching I’ve learned over the years. Sure, you can pay to access advanced genealogy and newspaper archives or pay someone else to navigate these resources for you. But if you’re on a budget, or just enjoy the “thrill of the hunt,” I’ll show you how to find obits for free, or very cheap.

Also, in recognition of the public’s fascination with news coverage of death, as well as word-lovers’ desires to read well-written, revealing obits, FreeObituary.com includes a blog updated with excerpts from and links to obituaries of recently deceased celebrities as well as what obituary-followers refer to as “average Joe’s” or “egalitarian” obituaries.