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Author: RBestrom7380
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The CORRECT link to this library is:
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~obitl/volnv.html
I actually went to this link for the Washoe County Library. It shows no information in
the suggested Catalog Browse.
The Reno Gazette-Journal website did not identify an obit for that name.
Legacy.com is
the archive source for the Reno Gazette-Journal. The record for 1985 is probably to old
for current database archives.
There may or may not be an obit in Reno. MANY do not have one posted for many reasons:
there wasn't family in the area; or didn't want to pay for an obit, the person
hadn't lived long in the area, or due to health/living didn't have a wide circle
of friends; the person requested no obit, etc.
More info on him was needed for expanded search.:
The Social Security Death Index:
Ethel Callahan, born 25 August 1903, died April 1985, "last residence:" Reno,
Washoe County, NV. Her SSN 554-18-3567 was issued in California before 1951.
--The "last residence" on the SSDI is NOT necessarily where a person actually
lived or died. The Social Security Administration calls it simply the "home
of record." It is not necessarily where any benefit was paid to the person,
survivor, or the lumpsum death benefit (in 1972 was paid to anyone paying
burial expenses, family member, funeral home, city/county, attorney). It is
sometimes the location where the notification of death was sent to the SSA,
sometimes where the lump sum death benefit was sent.
The Washoe County recorder does not show her name, however, their records only go to 1991
Ron Bestrom
Tacoma, WA
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