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Visit the university closest to where the obituary was published. You will probably be able to use microfilm to find it. I did that to find much some from that era and it was relatively straightforward, but it would be nearly impossible without an exact date.
Also, this would vary by locality, but some public libraries (like mine, for example) subscribe to a big searchable database of obituaries going back into the 1980s, but its hit and miss with that one since they don’t always have the exact paper you’re after.
Additionally, sometimes you can find this sort of thing online. If you know which newspaper to look for you can occasionally find obituaries through the archives section of the individual newspaper’s website.
Try the website for the local newspaper. Several newspapers have very useful archives online. Go to the site, and type obit or archive into the search box/window, and see what they’ve got.
Do an internet search using the person’s last name and a comma and then the first name, such as, “Doe, Joseph”… you can add a county or city or the word “obit” as part of your search. I’ve solved several obit mysteries by being creative with my search words.
If you’d like to edit your question and let us know the location whether this obituary may have appeared, someone here will be glad to research and offer you further assistance, or at least further information.
I hope this helps!
Google brings up several: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=obi…
Here’s one that’s free and found an obituary for me: http://www.ancestorhunt.com/obituary_sea…
I’ve had the most success going to the city/county/state newspaper and searching the archives. A surprisingly high number of local papers have online and searchable archives going back decades.
You probably can’t.
In the USA, you can visit or send paper mail to a library, or try a post on a real genealogy board; Ancestry and GenForum both have one for every county in the USA. Some counties have “Internet Angels” who answer obit requests; some don’t.http://www.tedpack.org/obit.html
has links and tips.
Contact the funeral service provider..
or contact relatives of the deceased person
why does it have to be online? just get it from a paper