We accept obituary requests for anyone whose obituary may have appeared in our local daily paper, the Pasadena Star News.  We do request a death date and will search the microfilm within 10 days of the death date.  Please allow at least three weeks for a request to be filled. 

Requests can be submitted any of the following ways:

24 hour Ask-A-Librarian service http://www.cityofpasadena.net/library/askalibnfrm.htm  
Telephone: (626) 744-4066 and press 7
Mail: 285 E. Walnut St., Pasadena, CA 91101.

For more information on our business hours and location, click here http://www.cityofpasadena.net/library/central.asp. 

If you do not have a death date, one can be obtained from a variety of sources as follows:

Social Security Death Index:
http://ssdi.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/ssdi.cgi

California Death Index:
http://userdb.rootsweb.com/ca/death/search.cgi

This database covers anyone that died in California between 1940 and 1997.  Los Angeles Public Library also has from 1930-1939 on microfiche.

RootsWeb.com
http://www.rootsweb.com

Searches the California Death Index from 1940-1997

*If you are unable to find the death date via one of the above websites and the person died in Pasadena, you may wish to request a death certificate from:

City of Pasadena
Vital Statistics Office
First Floor, Room 1136
1845 N. Fair Oaks Ave.
Pasadena, CA 91103
http://ww3/publichealth/pphd_home/records/vital_home.asp
(626)744-6010

*Please see their website for specifics on requesting a birth or death certificate.

If the person died outside of Pasadena, but in the State of California, you may wish to request a death certificate from the county recorder in the county of death or contact:

Office of Vital Records and Statistics
304 S Street
P.O. Box 730241
Sacramento, CA 94244-0241
http://www.dhs.ca.gov/chs/ovr/ordercert.htm
(916) 445-2684

If you need further assistance, please call the Pasadena Public Library’s Reference Department at (626) 744-4066 Monday – Thursday 9 –9, Friday or Saturday 9-6.